Yes, this is a very ancient behaviour.  It goes
way back in unix to tty's when they really were
a tty (teletype)  Early ones did not have lower-
case characters, and so unix handled them by
ignoring case differences.  What is happening
is that when you login in with uppercase characters,
the login program is assuming that you are on
one of theses things, and issuing the appropraite
stty calls to ignore case.   If you know what you
are doing, then you can reset it back to the
normal behaviour using the appropriate stty
commands, don't have a man-page handy...
Something like
stty -iuclc -olcuc -xcase
should restore it.

Hal Duston
hald@sound.net
Boring is good.
A conformist in a nonconformist world.

Evan Hoff wrote:

> i recently noticed on my debian box, that if
> i login with the caps key on..the shell
> automatically puts *everything* in caps..it
> also resets the caps lock LED on the kb, and if
> i try to use the shift key to make a lowercase
> letter, no go..and filenames/etc are still
> case-sensitive..kinda wierd..i've heard
> of the reason for this..but i cant remember and
> am really curious as to why this is..any ideas?
> does it work on other distros? (same version of
> login?)
>
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