Take a look at the bash HOWTO, or man bash. Greg On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:44:22PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > Hi all. > I was wondering if there is any way that I can set things up so I can > change the appearance of the prompt when I switch to super user after > logging in as a regular user? > In other words, if I log in as mweeby and then use the su command to use > root privileges, can I change the prompt so that as long as I am su it's > different? > If nothing else, could somebody indicate what man pages I should look at. > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup