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[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Funny...  As you say, the command line UNIX login is and always has been 
username<Enter> password<Enter>: the same for Microsoft's DOS network 
client too, by the way.  It's been long enough since I did Novell, that I 
don't remember in the graphical login screen whether going from username to 
password required <tab> or <enter>, but I think the former, because I don't 
remember it being a difficult transition from it to IBM/Microsoft 
networking.  And the graphical login for Windows and OS/2 uses <tab>.

What strikes me as odd is this... The only X Windows logins I'm familiar 
with are XDM, which goes with <enter>, true to it being a simple front end 
for the command line login, and KDM.  I had always used <tab> with KDM, and 
it worked--but apparently <enter> will also work.  I accidentally hit 
<enter> and got moved to the password line instead of the login error I was 
expecting.

At 04:53 PM 9/25/02 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:

> >
> > Sorry, Dave, but your method seems incredibly counter-untuitive to me.
> > The way it works is the way i'd expect and want it to work.
>
>I've been logging into UNIX boxes for over 15 years.  It's always been:
>username<Enter>
>password<Enter>
>
>and if you'll look at 4.x, that's the way is was (guess I have to
>downgrade to 4.78).  Doing anything else to me is counter-intuitive.  It's
>tough to break a habit of 15 years, 60 hours a week, logging into a UNIX
>box.  Even when I sit and _think_ about not doing it, I hit <Enter>.  Old
>dog ... and I don't want to learn a new trick, I want the login to work
>like logins have _always_ worked for me.
>
>When you log into your box (VT or XDM/KDM/GDM/WDM), after you enter your
>username do you really hit <Tab>????????????????????  And it
>works?????????????????????
>
>Anyway, the question was, how to fix the configuration, not that I'm old
>and futzed.
>
>Ciao,
>
>David A. Bandel



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