As a server admin, I adore the idea. I've yelled profanity too many times rebooting the wrong machine in haste. Would be wonderful in a large tmux session.
On Dec 9, 2017 11:57, <li...@wrant.com> wrote: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:10:03 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@openbsd.org> > > the default prompt works exactly because it doesn;t try to second guess > > what the user wants, or what is or isn;t good for them. the mechanism > > for changing the prompt is trivial. > > > > i don;t think it makes sense to change the shells in this way. > > Having seen bug reports with data from the wrong machine multiple > times in the last year, especially related to Mike's new work in vmm, > I'm sorry I have to disagree. Some developers have even rebooted > the wrong machines. > > Not everyone has time to configure their development machines > as you suggest. > > This change has *no impact* on the people who already take the time > to change their prompt. It improves the lives of those who don't have > time to do so. > Hi Theo, Theo, Jason and everyone, With all the respect and understanding what you're saying is true, yet I have the time to change my prompt, and it would still affect me. By not being able to use remote log-ins and remote file edits by software that depends on both interactive and non interactive shell behaviours. Please, kindly provide a snippet in skel (profile) to revert this too. Kind regards, Anton Lazarov