userid all-caps makes screen output all-caps.

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Terrence Enger <tenger-ew0EfhANLmVEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org>

| At 16:09 2003-09-20 -0400, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
| >Henry Spencer wrote:
| > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Terrence Enger wrote:
| > > 
| > > This is a feature, albeit an extremely old one.  If you log in with an
| > > all-caps login name, the login program concludes that you must be using an
| > > uppercase-only keyboard/terminal/whatever, and adjusts system settings
| > > accordingly. 
| > > 
| > > Try the command "stty -lcase", after logging in.  I don't recall any
| > > automatic way to turn this behavior off.
| >
| > Adding that command to ,bashrc would do it.
| 
| Thank you, all.  That is exactly what I was looking for.
| 
| <aside>Speakng of upper-case only terminals, has anybody
| else here programmed using a model 33 teletype?</aside>

There may be a better way, depending on which variant of getty you are
using.  getty is the program that listens for logins.  Linux has a lot
of getty variants (do a "man -k getty" for a few examples).

For example, mgettydefs(4) describes /etc/gettydefs, the control file
for mgetty and perhaps other variants of getty.  Look at the -LCASE
flag.

Hugh Redelmeier
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