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The delay is normal
Authored by: Auricchio on Jan 17, '03 11:40:15AM

If you type CTL-D immediately, you are doing so to the login: prompt. The CTL-D (end-of-file) causes getty to exit. Init then has to catch the termination, check /etc/gettydefs, and spawn a new getty process.

On many systems, there is a deliberate delay to slow down repeated attempts to login by password guesses. This may be the case here, or you\'re just seeing the turnaround time to wake up init and spawn the new getty process.



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Exit >console mode cleanly and easily
Authored by: bmcgill on Jan 23, '03 02:52:23PM
Some of you get it. Others, let me be more specific... When entering >console mode (at gui login enter >console for the name with blank password), you are greeted with a command line login prompt. Normally, "exit" or "logout" would work if you were logged in. But you're not. So, this is how you exit back to the gui login without having to login first . The only other way is either physically rebooting or failing the login 9 times (hmm... I wonder if there is a way to change this number? Anyone?).

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