Re: problem with su

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Edmund Craske wrote:

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jez Hancock
Sent: 20 March 2004 18:23
To: Eric Yellin
Cc: freeBSD
Subject: Re: problem with su

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Eric Yellin wrote:
   

When I "su -m" and login as root, all I get in the prompt 
     

is a % sign. 
   

My normal user shell is tcsh and the prompt looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/eric(29): but this is not kept when I su 
     

-m. How can 
   

I change this?
     

Have you tried copying ~eric/.cshrc to ~root/.cshrc?

--
Jez Hancock
- System Administrator / PHP Developer
   


This isn't right, when using the -m flag su uses your current
environment, keeping your shell, prompt etc the same as in your
own account. All I can think of is that it executes something
when it opens the new shell which changes it, which shouldn't
be root's cshrc. Perhaps some shell script conditional gubbins
around the prompt statement in the user's cshrc?
Ed


Testing, one, two three.

I wrote (even having tested first) something
similar to the list almost 3 hours ago.  As it
hasn't shown up yet (mailman seems fine, is my
DNS down again?) we'll try again:
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"Seems a tad unusual.  Don't know if I can help,
but can you give me some info?
a. What is root's "shell" entry in /etc/passwd?

b.  From whence do you set your "normal" prompt?  /~/.cshrc?

If the machine is not used by others, a quick
workaround might be to simply copy your .cshrc
to /root/ and simply use "su".  But it does seem
a tad weird that "su -m" seems to be reading some
other resource file...or else my understanding of
"-m" is broken, which is entirely possible. "
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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