On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:26:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Haines Brown wrote:
In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little
basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which
I operate at this point from console.
1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in
/etc/profile, but that only affects user, not root.
This is the place; however, users can over-ride this by creating their
own ~/.profile file. I believe a typical Debian setup does not have
personal .profiles in users' home directories by default, but there is
one in root's home directory by default.
My system (woody) sets up .bash_profile when a new user is added.