> On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Chai Harjo wrote:
>
> > This is the first time I tried to login with a capital word.
> > This makes the login useless. Is this a bug?
> > Why do the words change to capital letters?
>
> That is exactly how login is supposed to function. It goes back to the
> days of all-upper-case terminals. When it's in uppercase mode, normal
> lowercase letters are made uppercase when you type them - u becomes U,
> and uppercase letters can be made by escaping them - R becomes \R
If you really want upper case logins, you can just place the following
in your .profile to correct the translation after login:
stty -iuclc -olcuc
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