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[Manish Jain]

On 2020-06-30 14:44, Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-06-30 02:44, Brandon helsley 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.
> 
> Hi Brandon/others,
> 
> It is often unnoticed that FreeBSD has a mirror of the root user 
> appropriately named toor (whose shell can be anything).
> 
> The better thing to do is :
> 
> 1) Install bash and poshinit: pkg install bash poshinit
> 2) Modify the shell for the user toor: chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
> 3) Set the password for toor: passwd toor
> 4) Logout and login as toor, and run the command poshinit
> 
> poshinit will :
> 
> 1) automatically adjust your bash prompt to the current directory
> 
> 2) create a portable shell environment (stored under $HOME/.shell/) that 
> you can reuse across Bash/Zsh under any OS: FreeBSD/Linux/Cygwin
> 
> If you do not want to use poshinit, you can yourself put the following 
> into your .bashrc:
> 
> export PS1='`pwd` # '
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Manish Jain

Typo :
"chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash" -> "chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash toor"