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01-08-2013, 07:35 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2007
Distribution: Fedora Core 7
Posts: 14
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su - root isn't acting right
Using Fedora, and when I type in su - root, and enter my password, it returns the following:
-bash-4.2#
No idea how to fix this. Thanks for any help!
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01-08-2013, 08:34 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: Colorado
Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS
Posts: 1,656
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You only need to do "su -", not "su - root". The root is implied.
Anyway, what's the problem? root often has a different prompt than normal users, looks normal to me.
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01-08-2013, 08:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2012
Location: Pune, India
Distribution: pclinux kde
Posts: 157
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What is wrong with it?
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01-08-2013, 08:37 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Hanover, Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 12,176
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What you see is the default Bash prompt for the root user (indicated by the #-character, an unprivileged user by default has the prompt ending with $).
Seems to be OK to me.
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01-09-2013, 11:47 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2007
Distribution: Fedora Core 7
Posts: 14
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Wasn't like that before, no idea why it changed, or how I can change it back.
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01-09-2013, 11:51 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: Colorado
Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS
Posts: 1,656
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Change it back to what? What are you expecting it to look like?
You can use the environment variable PS1 to change your prompt to whatever you like.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-...up-prompt.html
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 01-09-2013 at 11:53 AM.
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