Re: console prompt question

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jason Smith wrote:

> I have a minor cosmetic problem on one of my machines.  As of yesterday when
> you login as a regular user the prompt shows 'I have no name!@pentium:~$'
> How did this happen and how do I go about changing it back so it shows
> 'user@pentium:~$'
> 
Take a look at your /etc/bashrc. There should be a line in it that looks
something like this:

	PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " 

Play with that line, to get what you need.

-Kara

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