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From: sgf@lfm.brown.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Console wierdness under 3.5
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Date: 15 Jan 89 22:19:20 GMT
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>...whatever user name (including root) you give, after hitting the carriage 
>return no password is asked for, but instead a new login prompt is generated.

This sort of behavior usually occurs when there's some process running
that's trying to read from the console.

sam