Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:19:45 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Prompt containing SSH login information Message-ID: <20091124111945.GA80567@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20091124051038.1aef9ade.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20091124051038.1aef9ade.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:10:38AM +0100, Polytropon typed:
> Hi,
>
> again, a strange question: I'd like to know if there is a builtin
> means to let the csh's (or bash's) prompt show an information if
> the current dialog session has been opened via SSH from another
> system. The obvious is:
>
> me@sys1:~% ssh me@sys2
> me@sys2:~% _
>
> I'd like the second prompt that I've been logged into sys2 by
> sys1, such as
>
> me@sys1>sys2:~% _
>
> or reverse
>
> me@sys2<sys1:~% _
>
> or something similar, like the complex form with different user
> names, such as
>
> me@sys1:~% ssh bob@sys2
> me@sys1>bob@sys2:~% _
>
> Is this possible with the means given by the shell? I read "man
> csh", but found nothing that would fit.
>
> Maybe it's not possible (because not intended)...
In tcsh there's the REMOTEHOST env variable. Don't know about bash.
Something like:
set prompt = "${USER}@${HOST}>${REMOTEHOST}> "
should do it?
Ruben
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