su

HotDogger · 01-08-2013, 07:35 PM

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!

suicidaleggroll · 01-08-2013, 08:34 PM

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.

kedarp · 01-08-2013, 08:35 PM

What is wrong with it?

TobiSGD · 01-08-2013, 08:37 PM

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.

HotDogger · 01-09-2013, 11:47 AM

Wasn't like that before, no idea why it changed, or how I can change it back.

suicidaleggroll · 01-09-2013, 11:51 AM

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