Anomaly with bash PS1 definition
- by Michael Wiles
My root and admin user both have the same .bashrc file.
The prompt section of the .bashrc is the following:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
But the problem is that the admin user and root user have different prompts.
admin's prompt is:
admin@hostname:~$
and root's prompt is
root@hostname:/home#
So it seems root is using the "xterm" version and admin is not.
Why does the .bashrc file have this difference in prompts? How do I get the admin user to also use the xterm version?
How would I test that condition?
If I run echo $TERM while running as the admin user I get xterm so as far as I can tell, it should be using the xterm version for the admin user.
