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,
Dave
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