Hey, at the moment the current default csh prompt looks like user_at_hostname:directory% command This leads to an unexpected[*] result when using su (without "-"). In particular the user part is *not* changed to "root" (or "toor" or any other superuser indication) although the promptchar is changed to "#". This causes some confusion for new users and even some experienced ones. I worked around this issue by including the following if ($uid == 0) then set user = root endif which I'm not certain is a good idea. I would like to replace this with logic like if $uid = 0 AND $user != toor AND $user != root set user = "+$user" endif does anyone think this is a bad idea? can anyone propose a better idea? Is the status quo okay? I don't trust user education for this problem. I've seen way too many people get confused to leave the default without some extra indicator. [*] Okay, so this is expected if you understand the difference between "su" and "su -" but the defaults are not aimed at people that understand this difference. -- Eitan AdlerReceived on Sun Nov 18 2012 - 22:32:52 UTC
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