On Wednesday 10 October 2012 19:42:32 James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-6 > > When I login as root I see this prompt: > > > [root at 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 at hostname pwd]$ > prompt? > > I have loked in/etc/profile.d and /etc/bashrc and I cannot see what > condition is triggering the different behaviour. > Create a file called /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm with contents #!/bin/bash echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD} [ `tty | sed -e "s:/dev/::"` ]\007" watch for line wrap in e-mail You can edit to suit your taste but the above gives [molloyt at mufc ~]$ Then make sure your users have bash as their shell in the password file not sh. Regards, Tony