HP-UX

Ah I should have asked that ( but who would think of something to do with the password? to start with...)
@ is the "erase line " or set line to blank in HP world.
I did not think of this because it is stated by all HP admins to never enter special char in root password (for the day you are to solve issues and have for the first time to connect using the console (HP terminal...))
You can try: type your name @ your name again at the prompt login!
This is important when you got the bad login set for it is the ONLY way to cancel or erase (empty buffer...)
..
Until you are logged in, then in profile or .profile you have a stty getting set...
This goes also when you connect via network on remote systems... remember to backslash before the @

all the best

I too saw warnings about using the special character "@" but I thought the warning only applied if "@" was used for kill. My stty -a output isn't, so I moved on in my troubleshooting process.

About your suggestion. Like this?

Code:

login: root@root
Password:
Login incorrect

That does not work for me. Or do I misunderstand your suggestion?

Code:

Telnet TERMINAL-SPEED option ON

HP-UX ran B.11.11 U 9000/800 (tb)

login: vbe@vbe
Password: 
Please wait...checking for disk quotas
(c)Copyright 1983-2000 Hewlett-Packard Co.,  All Rights Reserved.
(c)Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985-1993 The Regents of the Univ. of California
(c)Copyright 1980, 1984, 1986 Novell, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1986-1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1985, 1986, 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(c)Copyright 1989-1993  The Open Software Foundation, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1986 Digital Equipment Corp.
...

In other words your stty was already set... try a fresh connection with telnet from another box...

The backslash did it. Thanks!

ex\@mple