Different keymaps (??) on my ttys

Alexander Griesser alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at
Mon Dec 3 13:48:43 UTC 2007


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Alexander Griesser wrote:
>> Well, I think I have more details now after my vacation ;)
>> It seems as if `login` breaks stuff.
> 
> Sorry for followin up on my own posting that often, but I think I
> found the cause for this now finally. Somewhere down in getty.c
> it says:

...
So, everything is fixed now.
Somehow during the upgrade process from earlier busybox versions (I
always do backup the bb-config and copy it over to the new version,
afterwards do a `make oldconfig`) the shadow password feature wasn't
enabled anymore.

I tracked this down when using `strace` to debug my above mentioned
problem and after re-enabling it, everything is fine again.

I didn't know that the '#' and '@' characters are treated specially
on the login prompt and therefore I thought that that's the reason
why I can't login. Currently, '#' and '@' still behave the same, but
the password itself gets accepted flawlessly (even if it contains '#'
and '@'), so sorry for the confusion I produced in here...

ciao,
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