Setting PS1 for ordinary users
 

CentOS-6

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.



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Setting PS1 for ordinary users
 

James B. Byrne wrote:
> CentOS-6
>
> 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.

I'd guess whether there's a ~/.bashrc. I've got mine set the way I want
it; I don't remember a ~/.bashrc being automagically created for new
users.

mark

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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.



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