Strange Login issue

[Ashley_23]

Hi Friends ,
One strange problem , Whenever i login to one system ( HP UX 11.11 ) .It directly asks for the password prompt , them i have to press enter and then it asks for login name and password .
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telnet (hostntt1) (pts/0)

Password:
Login incorrect

Wait for login retry: ..
login:
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[Mel Burslan]

By the powers vested in me, by the intergalactic order of jedi, I am sensing that you are using some sort of a terminal emulator, where user can set a predefined username. And most probably you are using a workstation that you have inherited forma another fellow worker and no idea about this feature.

If this is a direct host-to-host telnet session, check to see if your telnet command is aliased to something else or has a wrapper script around it. Have seen some admins to force the use of ssh, change tellent into a wrapper script for ssh without telling anything to the users.

Immediately after you login, check the last few/few-hundred lines of the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and see what was the username of the last failed login attempt (hopefully your inetd is running with -l, logging enabled option).