[18932] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.0: login.krb5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Apr 27 20:18:17 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:18:15 -0400
Message-Id: <200104280018.UAA04208@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Jered Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18921] in Athena Bugs"
> What's wrong:
> The backspace key does not function when trying to log in.
>
> What should have happened:
> backspace should delete characters of my username. This
> does not happen. (^H does the right thing.)
Thanks for your bug report.
This is actually a problem with getty, not login.krb5. It looks like
getty always clears the ICANON terminal setting for some reason when
it initializes the terminal line, regardless of the /etc/gettydefs
entry. This prevents backspace from being handled as expected.
mingetty, which is normally used for virtual console logins, does not
seem to have the problem; we need to use getty in order to invoke a
non-default login program, however.
We will consider what might be done about this, but there may not be a
feasible solution.
Bob
