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Re: Set root shell prompt in /etc/profile ?


With all respect to the enthusiasm, but I think hardcoding this in bash is a bad idea. Bash isn't the only type of shell people use, and if you build this into the shell, you have to provide a switch to turn the non-standard behavior off.
It is much better handled in profiles.
$0.02


Mark J. Reed wrote:
Well, based on the 4.0 sources, there are only a couple places where
it checks for euid==0, but using a cached value rather than calling
geteuid() every time.  So I'm looking to see what the cascade effect
would be of just storing a 0 there when running on Cygwin and the user
is in the Administrators group.  If that's too disruptive I'll look at
adding a flag to the same structure, setting it appropriately, and
testing it instead of the euid.

On 9/5/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
On 09/04/2009 08:14 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
The ideal way would be patching bash to recognize if the current user has
root privileges (rather than its current check for just uid==0), so that
the PS1 escape \$ automatically printed # for privileged and $ for
normal.

I'll add it to my TODO list, but if someone comes up with a patch first,
I'd gladly review it.
Got a pointer to latest bash sources? I tried the savannah cvs
repository and they don't seem to be there anymore.
You could always use what's available through 'setup.exe'.

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