Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:48:23PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: >> To clarify the situation. The ONLY difference in the shell setup for >> both root and an ordinary user is the name. As shown below they bith >> use the same shell, they both have exactly the same contents in >> .bashrc and .bash_profile. The file .profile exists for neither. And >> yet somehow they end up with totally different PS1 values. >> >> How this happens I wish to discover. Where is root getting its PS1 >> value set and why is root's prompt surrounded by []? The ordinary >> user's PS1 value is that of the bash default which indicates to me >> that it is not being set anywhere. >> >> There is a good deal of code given over to setting the PS1 value in >> /etc/bashrc but it seems to depend upon PS1 being already set. I can >> find no reference to PS1 in any file in/root and the oly reference in >> /etc/profile.d is in colorls.sh which seems to be testing PS1 for a >> zero length string (i.e unset value). >> >> Where is PS1 actually being set? > > James, > > Have a look in /etc/bashrc (and scripts called from there, such > as in /etc/profile.d). > > HTH, To be more specific, look at the root user's .bashrc and the regular user's .bashrc, and note whether or not they contain: # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi On my system(s), /etc/bashrc contains the specifics for setting $PS1. If your system's /etc/bashrc contains the same, and the regular users' .bashrc files are not calling /etc/bashrc, this may explain the lack of "appropriate" prompt display.