topic Re: Enabling backspace during Login in Operating System - Linux

Enabling backspace during Login

ricky2 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:19:19 GMT

Hi!!!

I need to set my backspace key to work on linux telnet sessions.
Currently it is set to ^h but I want to use backspace.
however the backspace key works after the login but I want to get enabled during the login prompt.
could anyone help me out asap??

thanks,
Ricky

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

pabel — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:31:25 GMT

Try this command:

stty erase ^h

Regards.

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

ricky2 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:49:12 GMT

pablo,

i know to use stty erase but as I have allready mentoned that I need to work this at the login prompt

ricky

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

pabel — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:14:17 GMT

Sorry Ricky, I thought you have have this problem after logon. A couple of years ago with fix this problem (Spanish RH 7.3) using:

echo "keycode 14 = BackSpace" | loadkeys

Maybe you can give it a try. If this works you can use a scrip to execute this at boot time or modify your default keymap.

Good luck.

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

ricky2 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:50:29 GMT

Pablo,
thanks for the reply ,does it work the same way for english keyboard?
I havent tried the command u had send as I would like to know how to revert back to the original loadkey in case if it doesnt work?..any idea..plz
rgds,
ricky

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

Alan_152 — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:49:15 GMT

In my experience, this is somewhat dependant on the user's shell (so you can set the parameters in the correct file). Which shell are we talking about?

Re: Enabling backspace during Login

Ken Stailey — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:10:17 GMT

Try this command:

stty erase "^H" kill "^U" < /dev/ttyconf