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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by johnchristopher on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:07AM (#17781104)
> Thanks to PAM on Linux, "<hostname> login: " is printed by an entirely different set of processes than the "Password: " that follows it.

Ah! So that's what's going on :D.

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by exikyut on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:11AM (#17786820)
On FreeBSD, at least, you can tinker with the sshd to switch between PAM, to get "Password: " and some other sshd-internal mechanism, which prints "<whatever login you just typed>'s password: " instead. Kind of cute.

And you can always run strace -f on whatever handles login (getty, logind, systemd, etc), drop to a TTY and login, to see all the stuff that gets loaded.

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