Re: New Install

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> If your prompt is a "$" you are not logged in as root.  This is the regular user

Not necessarily true.

[8:46pm] hamish@silly:~> su -
Password:
/local/home/root$ 
/local/home/root$ 
/local/home/root$ 
/local/home/root$ logout
[8:46pm] hamish@silly:~> 


My prompt is set in ~root/.profile to
PS1="\w\$ "

>From the bash manual page:

              \$     if  the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a
                     $

Goodness knows why this doesn't work.


Hamish

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