Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:36:13 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: prompt w/ uid 0 for cshrc Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmsUyjzhxUf-7GB3cNq0ycnyCKTzxd-1EFzhdAE1ubz8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=V4gbOKOfB%2BJ-fzxHDjqducd8C7d7f1Oxz-UxbquVKeg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxg=V4gbOKOfB%2BJ-fzxHDjqducd8C7d7f1Oxz-UxbquVKeg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18 November 2012 18:32, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > Hey, > > at the moment the current default csh prompt looks like > > user@hostname:directory% command > > This leads to an unexpected[*] result when using su (without "-"). > > In particular the user part is *not* changed to "root" (or "toor" or > any other superuser indication) although the promptchar is changed to > "#". > This causes some confusion for new users and even some experienced ones. > > I worked around this issue by including the following > > if ($uid == 0) then > set user = root > endif > > which I'm not certain is a good idea. > > I would like to replace this with logic like > > if $uid = 0 AND $user != toor AND $user != root > set user = "+$user" > endif > > does anyone think this is a bad idea? can anyone propose a better > idea? Is the status quo okay? ... I was pointed in the right direction. I should use %N instead of %n. -- Eitan Adler
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