[BusyBox] ROOT (capital letters) login problem

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20030306091718.C295F28424 at www.fastmail.fm> you wrote:
> 
> I'm using the busybox 0.60.5 and I have seen that when I log into the
> system with
> the user ROOT (instead of root) the filesystem lets me to get in. After
> that
> everything that I write or I read (for example ls) is in capital letters.
> Of course
> I don't have any user with the name ROOT defined in the password/group
> files.
> The root is the only one user of the system.
> 
> Has anybody seen this strange behaviour of the filesystem?, if so, could
> you give me any clue
> of how to fix it?

This is not strange, but standard behavious on all Unix systems since
the beginning of the epoche.

When you log in will all  caps,  the  system  assumes  that  you  are
connected to a terminal (teletypewriter) which does not support lower
case letters.


Wolfgang Denk

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