Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 07:44:39 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <200001060644.HAA64971@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <851cui$2hnb$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> I usually configure all virtual terminals as "insecure", so
>> it's impossible to login as root. ;-) (ssh and ftp don't
>> allow root logins by default, and telnet is disabled on most
>> of the FreeBSD boxes here.)
>
> How do you configure a terminal as insecure?
Replace "secure" by "insecure" in /etc/ttys for all virtual
terminals. For details, type ``man ttys'' and look for the
paragraph containing the word ``secure''.
> if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
> PS1="root@\h\w\$"
> else
> PS1="joseph@\h\w\$"
> fi
> According to the man page on bash, the "$" is supposed to show up as "#"
> if uid is 0, otherwise it will show as "$". It doesn't do this,
> however. It always shows up as "$", regardless of uid.
Hmm, no idea. I'm not a bash expert. Maybe it's a bug.
As a workaround, you can just write "#" in the first "PS1"
line, of course.
Regards
Oliver
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