mattson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Jim Mattson) (10/12/89)
Maybe it's getting a little late to complain about problems with 0.9, but
NeXT is a little slow in getting us our 1.0 upgrade, so we're still stuck
with 0.9 for an indefinite time. Here's the problem, along with some
background. Our NeXT is yp-served by a Sun 3 running Sun OS3.5. Recently,
I changed my yp password. I am still able to log in to the NeXT remotely,
but, alas, it won't let me log in on the console. The login window gets the
shivers, the way it does when you mistype your password. Guess what the
problem is...my password has a ^T in it. (Now that all of North America
knows that, maybe I should change it. :-) I checked out the keyboard to make
sure that ^T is transmitted properly, and it is. So, what gives? Is this
fixed in 1.0? Or is this not a bug, but rather a NeXT feature that helps
set the cube apart from other Unix boxes?
--jim
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