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From: hmm@laura
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: login program and slow-scrolling terminals
Message-ID: <179@laura>
Date: 2 Jan 88 12:57:00 GMT
References: <1505@saturn>
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In article <1505@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes - Computer Center) writes:
>  I'm wondering if there is any reason not to modify getty and login
>to strip out any funny characters in the login name.

I think that modifying getty & login is relatively safe.  We have done
it here on our uucp machine where the incoming lines are connected
to a x.25 PAD.  The PAD sends an XON when it gets an incoming call,
which has to be ignored by getty.  I know, in this case we could just
tell our uucp partners to change their L.sys entries for unido,
but there are so many of them...

	Hans-Martin
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