Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:12:24PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:

As far as I can see the two invocations call the same program. And yet, replacing /bin/sh with /bin/bash in the ordinary user's passwd entry does indeed change the prompt to one identical to that used by root. Does anyone here know why this happens?

Many programs may change behaviour, depending on the name they are called by.

"man bash"

--norc Do not read and execute the personal initialization file ~/.bashrc if the shell is interactive. This option is on by default if the shell is invoked as sh.