Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!eos!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!a.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Info on BRL shell Message-ID: <216100001@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Sep 88 20:12:00 GMT References: <406@marob.MASA.COM> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:marob.MASA.COM:406:s.cs.uiuc.edu:216100001:000:674 Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll Sep 22 15:12:00 1988 RE: adding '#' to the end of the superuser's prompt I disagree. The shell shouldn't be changing your prompt. If the root user isn't competent enough to set that up himself, he shouldn't have a root login. For instance, my normal prompt contains the word 'Sir' in it - when I'm root, it is 'SIR' in bold/inverse letters. I'm sure that others have equivalent tricks. However, I'd say that it's really a non-problem if it can be turned off by a compile time flag. Alan M. Carroll carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu Grad Student / U of Ill - Urbana ...{pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!s!carroll "Too many fools who don't think twice, too many ways to pay the price" - AP&EW