> > 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).
> >
> This is isn't a bug. It is a feature of the login(1)
> program. Long ago there were teminals that were only
> capable of using uppercase characters; to allow the
> use of such terminals, the login(1) program was given
> the functionality to accept only upercase charcters.
> This made it possible for users who had Upper/Lowercase
> combination passwords/usernames to login.
> -Chris
I was not aware of that. Thank you for enlightening me :-)
/Jesper Juhl
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