Post #1317561

@kevin In at least a couple of your replies you've talked about the default Debian .bashrc as though it's an immutable fact of life. Delete it! I keep everything in my .shrc and have my .profile source it. I get precisely the same environment everywhere, doing this. I use these same rc files everywhere. My .shrc sets the right prompt based on whether it's root or non-root. It also uses one pattern for PS1 in bash, since bash is buggy and can't count emitted characters correctly, and another for shells that don't have counting bugs - oksh for instance. There's no reason to stick with the defaults, and you can even set up custom skeletons so your new users get functional rc scripts from the start.