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From: "Edmund Craske" <edmund@m00is.net>
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Subject: RE: problem with su
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This isn't right, when using the -m flag su uses your current
environment, keeping your shell, prompt etc the same as in your
own account. All I can think of is that it executes something
when it opens the new shell which changes it, which shouldn't
be root's cshrc. Perhaps some shell script conditional gubbins
around the prompt statement in the user's cshrc?

Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jez Hancock
> Sent: 20 March 2004 18:23
> To: Eric Yellin
> Cc: freeBSD
> Subject: Re: problem with su
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Eric Yellin wrote:
> > When I "su -m" and login as root, all I get in the prompt 
> is a % sign. 
> > My normal user shell is tcsh and the prompt looks like this:
> > [eric@www4]/home/eric(29): but this is not kept when I su 
> -m. How can 
> > I change this?
> 
> Have you tried copying ~eric/.cshrc to ~root/.cshrc?
> 
> -- 
> Jez Hancock
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