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Adam
Jul 11, 2003, 3:24:48 PM7/11/03
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Hi all. I have many OpenBSD machines and I have customized the prompt to
display time, user currently logged in and server name. My question is
when I log in as a user and I su to root the root prompt does not seem
to use my customized prompt. BTW, I'm using Bash 2.05 static. Now I have
changed the shell to bash for the root account. The customized prompt
displays fine as long as I do not su in. Below is the code I used in the
file .profile and what is lookes like after being parsed.
display time, user currently logged in and server name. My question is
when I log in as a user and I su to root the root prompt does not seem
to use my customized prompt. BTW, I'm using Bash 2.05 static. Now I have
changed the shell to bash for the root account. The customized prompt
displays fine as long as I do not su in. Below is the code I used in the
file .profile and what is lookes like after being parsed.
Any ideas? Am I going about this wrong or missing a file to change?
.profile
--------
PS1="\n\@ [\u]\n\h:"
After being parsed
01:10 PM [username]
servername:
Peter B
Jul 11, 2003, 3:28:51 PM7/11/03
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"Adam" <webma...@SPAMvenmarces.com> wrote in message
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> Any ideas? Am I going about this wrong or missing a file to change?
>
How do you su?
#su -
?
Then the shell of root runs it's profile-script (I suspect standard csh)
Peter
Adam
Jul 11, 2003, 4:02:31 PM7/11/03
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I login wiht my user account and type "su". Type in the root password
and done. Why should I stick with csh? Either way the prompt does not
change when I su to root.
and done. Why should I stick with csh? Either way the prompt does not
change when I su to root.
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