[ale] root's shell prompt

[David S. Jackson]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:58:12PM -0400 John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> 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.

Lots of different ways to do this, but you might try something
like

PS1="[\u@\h \w]"
case `id -u` in
  0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
  *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac

in your .bashrc file

Personally, I prefer to just "su -" or use sudo.  If you su -
then all your environment variables get updated to root's too.

-- 
David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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