[Malvern] Backspace setting during login

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:23:45PM +0100, Steve Cashmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been bugged for a long time regarding the handling of the backspace
> key during a remote login to Linux boxes.  It crops up and I try to fix
> it, give up, and then forget until it comes around again!
> 
> The issue is that the default login handler treats DEL (0x7F) as the
> delete last character code rather than BACKSPACE (0x08).  While this can
> easily be changed *post-login* with "stty erase ^H", I have yet to find a
> way to do it *pre-login* on the linux box in question, Fedora 4.

Ha!  You see, yet another reason why apt is better than rpm!

Chris
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