SUMMARY:Treat uppercase login/passwd like lowercase

From: Dante.Alzamora@Avanti-Casehoyt.Com
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 14:57:38 CST


Looks like I'm stuck with having users to login in lower case (& then turn
CAP LOCK on for the application they use).
Many commented on the problem but no one gave me the solution to it.

Thanks anyways,

Dante

---------------------- Forwarded by Dante Alzamora/Avanti on 01/24/2000
04:36 PM ---------------------------

From: Dante Alzamora on 01/20/2000 12:22 PM

To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
cc:
Subject: Treat uppercase login/passwd like lowercase

How can I ignore the caps during the login? I need users to login in
uppercase (or lowercase) and be treated like lowercase.
I'm migrating from DG/UNIX to Solaris 7. In my DG box, you can login in
uppercase & put your passwd in uppercase. Then you get everything in
uppercase (emulating Uppercase terminals only) with the back slash. Here's
a sample:
Notice that the password prompt already assumes you have an uppercase
terminal only. Then via stty I restore the settings. When I typed pwd, it
showed in lower case.
-------------------------------------------------- cut here ---------------
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DG/UX Release R4.11MU05 (tele95)

login: ROOT

\PASSWORD:

\D\G/\U\X \RELEASE \R4.11\M\U05 \A\VII\O\N

TELE95

YOU HAVE MAIL

# pwd

/

-------------------------------------------------- cut here ---------------
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When I do it on our E450 running Solaris 7 I get:
-------------------------------------------------- cut here ---------------
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login: ROOT
Password:
Login incorrect
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This time it did not understand the password, it clearly shows that it
treats it as another user "ROOT".

Thanks in Advance,

Dante



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