In RedHat you would just copy over the .bashrc file from the operable users
home directory.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Jahn" <eric@ejahn.net>
To: "SLUG" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: [SLUG] bash prompt - setting it to current user (Gentoo)
> I have a stupid question, yet the answer eludes me...
>
> everything was working great with my console (KDE's Konsole), then I did
> a big system upgrade which overwrote some config files and now when I
> open a new console it shows the prompt thusly:
>
> bash-2.05b$
>
> when it used to show my username/host, etc. from the outset like this:
>
> ejahn@localhost ejahn $
>
> Then, if I log in as "ejahn", then it shows everything in the correct
> username/host format as before. I know how to configure a bash prompt,
> but what I don't understand is how to make a new console display a
> prompt for the current user (not the generic "bash-2.05b$" one) without
> having to subsequently log in to the current user with a password.
> Thanks!
>
>
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