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Fun trick (I don't know if it still works): on the login prompt of your Linux (or other Unix) machine, type your username in all caps. This sets some strange termios(3) modes, which convert all lowercase output to UPPERCASE and all UPPERCASE input to lowercase. These modes are, AFAIK, for compatibility with these uppercase-only terminals.


Just tried it. Didn’t work.

(I tried it on a regular Linux virtual terminal (as is my normal way—I don’t use a graphical login manager), with my password in correct/inverted/upper/lower case, none work. It’s conceivable a pam module could make it work or something like that. I’m not investigating.)


Is your distribution still using getty?


Arch Linux with no meaningful configuration changes in this area. I understand so.


It's possible they disabled the switch in getty that enables the uppercase detection, it's -U....


You got any more info on that? I can't find anything online that talks about this trick



good luck with multi-case passwords...


Wait. You guys use passwords on your computers??




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