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[20050527] More c0ding: But ... I'm not done typing my login name, Mr. getty(8)!
NetBSD's getty(8) has a funny feature to jump immediately to prompt for a password after reading LOGIN_NAME_MAX (== 16) chars, no press of the return key needed. While the subject is still being discussed, I have made a patch to make getty(8) not jump to the password prompt, but to beep and not accept any further input. See PR bin/30295 for the details. (And now let's see who picks this up first, and if credit is given this time ...)

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