Re: entering uid/pwd at console -- lower case uid/pwd interchageable with upper case

[Dave Edwards <davo_(_at_)_chunga_(_dot_)_apana_(_dot_)_org_(_dot_)_au>]

'To quote Matthew L. Shobe..'
> From owner-misc+M17413_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org Thu Sep  5 14:11:25 2002
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:36:52 -0400
> From: "Matthew L. Shobe" <mls_(_at_)_shobe_(_dot_)_org>
> To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
> Subject: entering uid/pwd at console -- lower case uid/pwd interchageable with upper case

> While in #OpenBSD on Freenode, nate ( at ) ocalafl.net noticed that
> a uid/pwd of a single case, (e.g. ``mls'', ``foobar1'',) can be
> entered at ttyC? in upper case and authenticated, (e.g. ``MLS'',
> ``FOOBAR1'',) which seems a little... strange. Neither the manpages
> for login(1), getpass(3), or readpassphrase(3), nor MARC or Google
> shed light on why login's behavior might differ our expectations.
> Might anyone spare a clue?

Could this be a legacy issue.  Old^H^H^HAncient serial 
terminals could only do uppercase!  After he logged in, 
was he able to type anything in _lower case_? 

ciao
dave
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