Bug 190072

Summary:	backspace key not functioning during login
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Ricky <sparklings>
Component:	telnet	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	drafnel
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Description Ricky 2006-04-27 10:46:41 UTC

Description of problem:

When I telnet to a redhat server at the login prompt my backspace does not 
work.
Currently when I use a backspace it types ^H but I want to use backspace to 
delete the before character.
however the backspace key works after the login but I want to get this work 
during the login prompt.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux 2.4.21-27

  
Actual results:
when backspace key it print ^H

Expected results:

backspace key should delete the the before character


Additional info:

using the uk-english keyboard setting

Comment 1 Brandon Casey 2006-09-08 20:15:52 UTC

Similar problem after upgrading to 4.4 from 4.3.

Noticed in vim sessions, hitting backspace during insert now produces ^?. Only
noticed this when using xterm, gnome-term works ok. I had no problems with 4.3.

in xterm:
   stty -a: erase = ^H;
   Ctrl-v backspace: ^?
   Ctrl-v Ctrl-backspace: ^H

in gnome-terminal:
   stty -a: erase = ^?;
   Ctrl-v backspace: ^?
   Ctrl-v Ctrl-backspace: ^?

at console:
   stty -a: erase = ^?;
   Ctrl-v backspace: ^?
   Ctrl-v Ctrl-backspace: ^?

Shouldn't backspace emit ^H. I'm not sure what RHEL4.3 emitted (didn't have this
problem).

Adding the command "stty sane" to my .bashrc is somewhat of a fix. It has the
effect of changing erase to be ^?. But of course, I have the same problem
whenever I spawn an xterm with an ssh session in it.

Any ideas on what could have changed between the 4.3 release and the 4.4 release
that could have caused this problem?

-brandon

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2006-09-25 14:36:24 UTC

termcaps maybe... depends heavily on the terminal you use! not a telnet bug!

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2006-09-25 14:40:42 UTC

Which terminal are you using?
# echo $TERM

Comment 4 Ricky 2006-09-25 15:07:06 UTC

Iam using the "ansi" term.

Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2006-09-25 15:13:13 UTC

well.. maybe /etc/termcap changed... or /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi*
which means either the package termcap or ncurses. please assign to the
component, which changed from release 4.3 to 4.4

Comment 6 Ricky 2006-09-25 15:25:26 UTC

Iam using the "ansi" term.

Comment 7 Ricky 2006-09-25 15:36:01 UTC

For me it is not the case of change in release.
My users connect to the server through the command prompt from their windows PC
and here at the login prompt the backspace key doesnt work.
However this works fine when I use the terminal like putty.

Comment 8 Harald Hoyer 2006-09-26 07:10:24 UTC

well, that's a common problem... do a google search for this. In some terminals
you could specify, what backspace and delete will send... ^H or ^? This is a
never ending story :)

Comment 9 Brandon Casey 2006-10-11 23:41:07 UTC

In an installation of RHEL4.4 on your end, is erase set to ^? or ^H in xterm?
stty -a prints this info out.

For me, this changed from 4.3 to 4.4?