[ale] root's shell prompt

[Robert L. Harris]

put this in your .profile:

whoami=`whoami`
PS1="$whoami: #>"

or something similar.  Mine looks like this:

WhoAmI=`whoami`
Hostname=`hostname | cut -d\. -f1`
PS1="\[\033]1;\h\007\033]2;$WhoAmI@$Hostname : $PWD\007\]\n$WhoAmI@$Hostname\n{\$?}:\$PWD>"




Thus spake John Wells (jb at sourceillustrated.com):

> On most of my machines, when I su to root, the $PS1 prompt changes.  This
> is a nice feature, because I always know when I'm root or not by looking
> at the prompt.
> 
> However, on one of my machines, when I su to root, the prompt stays the
> same as the original uid's.  It seems to me it used to work as described
> above, but now it does not.
> 
> Anyone know what controls this behavior, and how I get it back to the way
> it was?  I really don't want the change PS1 in root's .bash_profile and
> then be forced to use "su -" all the time.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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