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- > Thanks. I actually ran across your solution by accident when I started
- > loading up the /usr files, but was not aware of why it worked.
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- > Now it gets past that, but the login prompt is badly managled and I can only
- > login in as mw. The prompt ends up being multiple lines, spaced across the
- > display and with missing or rearranged letters. However it does accept input
- > and comes back with the normal password prompt. I have tried changing the
- > root password via passwd and editing /etc/passwd, but the login process will
- > not accept it. Anyone have any hints on this weirdness?
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- This is the parity problem I mentioned in news. The default entry
- in /etc/gettytab has ':ap:' which is "any parity". You want to change that
- to ':np:' for "no parity".
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- The reason why the password prompt is normal is because getty prompts
- for the login name and then exec's login with the name as an argument.
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- - Kyle
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