On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:25:48 -0700, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [...] > > Ah! Permission/ownership problem? > > mark Good suggestion. I found that for myUser .bashrc had the wrong permissions and .bash_profile was missing! I am sure that this happened because I copied /home/myUser was copied in from backup before the account was created. We won't do that again. But now, I still do not see how the prompt is set since I have no /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default . Mike.