changing prompt for super user

Dan Murphy mweeby at nycap.rr.com
Thu Dec 6 15:54:09 EST 2001


I did that and have it the way I want it now.
Thanks.


On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Take a look at the bash HOWTO, or man bash.
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:44:22PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I was wondering if there is any way that I can set things up so I can
> > change the appearance of the prompt when I switch to super user after
> > logging in as a regular user?
> > In other words, if I log in as mweeby and then use the su command to use
> > root privileges, can I change the prompt so that as long as I am su it's
> > different?
> > If nothing else, could somebody indicate what man pages I should look at.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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