From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 9:44:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AF8537B40A for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 37306 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2001 16:44:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15301.52317.704062.564016@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:44:13 -0500 To: ann kok Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash shell $ and # In-Reply-To: <23960395@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 ann kok types: > Dear all > I have normal user in # shell > it is same as root in # shell > I type whoami, it is normal user > Why and is it normal? Because someone set PS1 to "# " in the normal users shell. It's normal for the 3l33t to do that kind of thing to annoy people. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message