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Re: TERM - Point me in right direction ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Fri Nov 29 13:34:50 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 13:33:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
> I've been having this problem for awhile and I guess it never clicked as
> a priority... No that I have a bit of time to breathe, it bothers me !
>
> When I login to Linux machines I've built, the default behavior of
> LOGIN does not allow for vt100 backspace, so I get ^H and can't
> effectively edit a login: password: if I make a mistake in the process.
>
> Is there a way... Correction, what is the way to fix this ?
Try
stty dec
in your startup file. (e.g. .bash_profile or .bashrc )
Also, try
man stty
and look at erase, echoe.
-sen
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