[CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users
Tony Molloy
tony.molloy at ul.ie
Thu Oct 11 06:44:28 UTC 2012
On Wednesday 10 October 2012 19:42:32 James B. Byrne wrote:
> CentOS-6
>
> When I login as root I see this prompt:
>
>
> [root at vhost04 ~]#
>
> When I login as a non-priviledged user I see this instead:
>
> sh-4.1$
>
> .bashrc and .bash_profile have identical contents in /root and
> /home/user. What causes the difference? Why? How does one change
> the default so that all normal users get a [userid at hostname pwd]$
> prompt?
>
> I have loked in/etc/profile.d and /etc/bashrc and I cannot see what
> condition is triggering the different behaviour.
>
Create a file called /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
with contents
#!/bin/bash
echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD} [ `tty | sed -e
"s:/dev/::"` ]\007"
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You can edit to suit your taste but the above gives
[molloyt at mufc ~]$
Then make sure your users have bash as their shell in the password file
not sh.
Regards,
Tony
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