Re: OBSD 3.4 Denial of Service Question

[_ <nightelf@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>]

 On Sat, 8 May 2004, Dave Feustel wrote:
> Is there any way the incore image of the keyboard device driver
> in  OBSD 3.4 can be hacked via internet attack so that all input
> is converted to upper case, thus preventing login by
> users with any lowercase letters in userid or password?
> I just experienced this probem  and had to reboot to log in.
> I have DSL and leave my computer always on. While I was
> trying to login Using the
> shift/shiftlock keys did not result in any display of lower
> case letters before I rebooted although the keyboard led
>  indicators showed that the shift keys were working.

I've had similar problems over a minicom serial connection.

I was able to resolve it without rebooting by pressing ctrl-d
at the login prompt.

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