Where did my root prompt "#" character go?

jkcunningham

Up until yesterday my user account prompt character was "$" and my root or su prompt character was "#", like usual. I fooled around with the user prompt line in the users home directory .bashrc file and got it working the way I wanted. Now when I su from that user the prompt stays as "$" instead of changing to "#".

I don't see how it can do that. I have a .bashrc file in /root/ but it doesn't do anything to the prompt. Does the mere existance of a /root/.bashrc change the prompt for other users runing su? If so, how do I change it to the way it was?

It strikes me as dangerous to have the same prompt. I often have have a dozen eterms running, some su, some normal, and I rely on the prompt to help me distinguish between them.

-Jeff

puggy · Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 5:27 pm Post subject:

See what

Useful Idiot · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 329 Location: Finland

Try using su - insted of plain su.(Or if your lazy like me put alias su="su -" to users .bashrc)
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jkcunningham · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:50 am Post subject:

I put the line source /etc/profile in root's .bashrc and that fixed it.

Thanks.
-Jeff