Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

On 10/10/12 11:42 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:

When I login as root I see this prompt:

[root@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@hostname pwd]$ prompt?

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

what shell are your regular users configured for? sh reads .profile rather than .bash_profile

if you want that to be a system-wide default, you can put it in /etc/profile which ALL shells read before they read any user stuff.