If I log in to my system with all the characters in the login name as
upper case, then everything from that point onward will be uppercase (no
way to turn off caps).
See this dump below:
Welcome to Linux 2.2.17 (tty1)
odin login: ROOT
LINUX 2.2.17. LAST LOGIN: WED DEC 6 19:50:24 +0100 2000 ON TTY1. YOU
HAVE NEW MAIL.
ROOT@ODIN:~# LS / ALPHA/ CDROM/ JJUKERNEL1* LIBXDMGREET.SO.1@
PAKUD/ TEST/ VMLINUX.GZ* BIN/ DEV/ JJUKERNEL1.GZ* LOST+FOUND/
PROC/ TMP/ X@ BOOT/ ETC/ LIB/ MNT/
ROOT/ USR/ X11@ BUGS/ HOME/ LIBXDMGREET.SO@ OPT/
SBIN/ VAR/ ROOT@ODIN:~# EXIT LOGOUT
Welcome to Linux 2.2.17 (tty1)
odin login: root
Linux 2.2.17. Last login: Wed Dec 6 19:51:29 +0100 2000 on tty1. You
have new mail.
root@odin:~# ls / ALPHA/ cdrom/ jjukernel1* libXdmGreet.so.1@
pakud/ test/ vmlinux.gz* bin/ dev/ jjukernel1.gz* lost+found/
proc/ tmp/ x@ boot/ etc/ lib/ mnt/
root/ usr/ x11@ bugs/ home/ libXdmGreet.so@ opt/ sbin/
var/ root@odin:~#
This is more of a nuisance than a bug, but I just thought you would all
like to know.
/Jesper
Oh, by the way, this happens on i386 as well.
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