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From: tedmonds@convex.com (Tracy Edmonds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: /bin/login wierdness, m'aidez
Summary: Bad modem setup
Message-ID: <104450@convex.convex.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 17:54:49 GMT
References: <1633@ssbn.WLK.COM>
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In article <1633@ssbn.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>On the Tower I get to getty OK (according to ps) and when I type in
>my login ID I get to login bill (according to ps) but I never get
>prompted for a password, it just replies login incorrect and prompts
>for login again.  I've nearly torn the pages out of the book looking
>-- 
>Bill Kennedy  usenet      {texbell,att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill
>              internet    bill@ssbn.WLK.COM   or attmail!ssbn!bill

Sounds like a modem setup problem to me.  Evidently, everytime getty sends
its prompt, the modem is echoing it right back.  So, getty then reads the echoed
characters it just sent as a login name (possible followed by a passwd if getty
sends more than one line).  As you can see this could become an endless cycle.
I would check the modem to make sure it is in the proper mode.

-tracy

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Tracy Edmonds				tedmonds@convex.com
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