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<H1>[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty</H1>
<B>Liam R E Quin</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 8 16:38:55 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> So if we switch to mingetty in <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at .service</A> we'll be sacrificing
</I>><i> serial console support.
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Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
><i> PS I'm aware of some "strange" behaviour on the current gettys. When on
</I>><i> a getty you can use the cursor keys and move the cursor around. Keys
</I>><i> such as backspace don't seem to work if you mistype your username or
</I>><i> password
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In "Mageia Release 1" (and Mandriva) backspace does work, but cursor
keys will just insert esc [ A or whatever, with the ESC printed as ^[.
BSD systems did this from 4.1 or maybe earlier (1980 or so), except it
was DEL rather than BS to erase a character. Version 7 Unix had # and @
as erase character and back-to-start-of-word, not the DEC-style del and
^u.
But maybe that's going back further than you meant ;-)
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