[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?
On 2017-06-10 09:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the
> current directory.
> ...
> So for users, I can see where I am ("/usr/bin"). For root, I cannot. It
> just says "bin".
> ...
> Is there a rationale for this?
One guess: when you're a normal user, you're likely to be in an X
terminal emulator, and probably a fancy toolkit based one too. That
makes overflowing lines less of a problem than on a bare 80x25 console
which may be all you can work with as root, especially in an emergency.
But then, I may be making up a rationale when there is really none and
it's all just a historical accident, as Alan says.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?
On 06/10/2017 09:24 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not seeing it :-P Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name) a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line. It's in red, has the "username@" missing, and has a "#" prefix instead of an "$". That's a very good indication already that it's a root shell.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?
On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > I'm not seeing it :-P Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name) a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line. -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?
On 06/10/2017 11:50 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a rationale for this? Yes, please look into /etc/bash/bashrc (near to the end) ;) I'm not seeing it :-P
