Re: Question...

Matthew Cable/USA.NET Inc. (mec@usa.net)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:01:56 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Zeta Gryphon wrote:

> > 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
> [snip!]
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no tidy way to do this. There's the host: hack
> suggested by somebody else on the list already (which may or may not
> work, depending on whether your scripts just send a return or if
> they're expecting that first login: prompt), which is pretty crufty,
> but other than that, I'm afraid you're stuck retraining your users...
>

No hope of a ComOS patch is there ;)

Matthew E Cable / Senior Systems Administrator
mec@usa.net / USA.NET, Inc.
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