Enabling backspace during Login

[ricky2]

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

[pabel]

Try this command:

stty erase ^h

Regards.

[ricky2]

pablo,

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

ricky

[pabel]

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.

[ricky2]

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

[Alan_152]

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?

[Ken Stailey]

Try this command:

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