Shell

David Christensen dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Mon Jun 29 22:42:20 UTC 2020


On 2020-06-29 14:51, Donald Wilde wrote:
> On 6/29/20, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> There has been a difference in the hash sign of the command line. When I'm
>> logged in as user it is $. When I am logged in as root it is #, even when I
>> do not execute a shell. Usually it was root at machine17#. How do I change it
>> back? I have to do pwd instead of just knowing what directory I am in.
>>
>>
> The shell used for the root user is different than the shell used for
> a regular user, csh is leaner but also meaner than sh in many ways.
> 
> Do some research: man csh.
> 
> You can also get more examples on the web; google 'freebsd csh set prompt'.
> 
> In order to modify your prompt, you need to alter the variable PS1 in
> your .cshrc (C-shell startup file, note the starting '.') in your
> /root directory. For your regular prompt, look in the .profile file in
> /home/myuser.
> 
> I will warn you up front: the two shells are quite different. Save a
> backup of each of these files before you alter them. If your computer
> dumps you into shell mode without booting, having a .profile in /root
> is also a good idea. From the emergency shell you can 'source
> /home/myuser/.profile'

+1


Another option is to set the shell program for 'toor' to whatever is 
desired, and then use that account for system administration tasks:

2020-06-29 15:38:09 toor at f3 ~/f3.tracy.holgerdanske.com
# head -n 4 /etc/passwd | tail -n 2
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash


Note that this implies you enable logins for 'toor' and install bash(1).


(I would not change the shell for root, as this could break your system.)


David


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