Re: Question...
Andrew J. Doane (adoane@eagle.ais.net)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:39:52 -0500 (CDT)
>
> We're in the process of switching over from Annexes to Portmasters, and
> we've run upon a slight problem. On an annex, if you hit return at the
> Login: prompt, it returns you to another Login: prompt....on a
> Livingston, hitting return at the Login: prompt gives you a Password:
> prompt. Unfortunatly, our software that has been distributed to all of
> our customers issues a return upon connecting to 'wake up' the annex.
> Now, when they do that with the portmasters, they end up entering their
> username at the password: prompt and their passwords at the next login:
> prompt. Is there any solution to this problem? Any way to make ComOS
> return a login prompt on a return rather than a password prompt? Its
> rather essential, since otherwise we have to get many thousands of
> customers to change their software, which is nearly impossible.
>
> Matthew E Cable / Senior Systems Administrator
> mec@usa.net / USA.NET, Inc.
> 97 F0 56 4A 1B 1B 38 B1 1C E0 10 31 FD 57 AA 58
Not sure if it would work, but you might want to look into prompting the
user the host: prompt.
If you can get host: to accept the carriage return, then the next prompt
would be the login: prompt ....
A complete hack. You really should convert your users to PAP. We did it..
it was a pain... we lost some customers because they couldn't handle the
reconfig.. but it was worth it.
/ajd/
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