From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 8:14:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quartz.bos.dyndns.org (quartz.bos.dyndns.org [66.37.218.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A2637B405 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (twilde@localhost) by quartz.bos.dyndns.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9BFEKQ19558; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:14:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Wilde X-X-Sender: twilde@quartz.bos.dyndns.org To: ann kok Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash shell $ and # In-Reply-To: <20011011144321.28812.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But ls # not correct in the normal user? > > because it is on my system but this system I just > manage it. I am not sure about it > > Is it any harmful to my security? The prompt itself has no affect on a user's access privileges. Any user can override the system prompt setting by changing the appropriate environment variables, that doesn't give them root access. Tim Wilde -- Tim Wilde twilde@dyndns.org Systems Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message