From: Steven King, Software Archaeologist (king@rtsg.mot.com)
Date: 02/09/93


From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Anyone else have login-problems (password unrecognized) ?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 16:59:25 GMT

ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) publicly declared:
>I've got some problems with shadow/login on SLS 1.0.
>Sometimes I cannot login because my password is claimed to be false.
>However, I am sure I typed it in right. Sometimes I have to write it
>up to 10 times until it is recognized. I cannot make the same mistake 10-times.
>Also, I'am sure, I did not use backspace or something like that.

There's a "feature" of login that you might be seeing. I've found that
you can safely backspace during entry of your *password*, but not
during entry of your *userid*! If you do your userid will be wrong,
and you'll get the "invalid password" response.

Annoying.

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