Bug 714203

Summary:	Console login screen clearing is unhelpful
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ed Avis <ed>
Component:	initng	Assignee:	Daniel Malmgren <dm>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ed Avis 2011-06-17 15:39:45 UTC

This refers to the text console login prompt.

After a login attempt the screen is immediately blanked and the login prompt is printed again.  This means that any error message flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second and is gone!  This is most frustrating when trying to diagnose login problems.  If even root cannot log in, you cannot write down the error message to search for.

I would suggest not blanking the screen after each login attempt but leave the text from previous attempts (traditional Unix / Slackware stylee).  If that's felt to be a security risk from someone seeing the previous session, then at least pause for one second before blanking the screen.  That one second would be long enough to hit Ctrl-S and write down the message.  With the current setup you have to be extremely lucky to hit Ctrl-S at just the moment when the error message has been displayed but before it is blanked.

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