Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

On 10/10/2012 04:43 PM, Nux! wrote:

On 10.10.2012 19:52, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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I have loked in/etc/profile.d and /etc/bashrc and I cannot see what condition is triggering the different behaviour.

I'd guess whether there's a ~/.bashrc. I've got mine set the way I want it; I don't remember a ~/.bashrc being automagically created for new users.

New users' homedirs are populated from /etc/skell if you use useradd, which do contain a .bashrc (and more).

Another way (there is ALWAYS another way!) to do this for new accounts is to modify the /etc/default/useradd file and set the SHELL= line to use the shell you want. The unaltered file on my C6.3 box contains "SHELL=/bin/bash".

Of course, that doesn't help on existing accounts.

YMMV