On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > 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? > Just take user name from id -nu. -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>Received on Sun Nov 18 2012 - 22:44:42 UTC
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