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Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"

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From: John Galbraith <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Steve Reid <sreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:14:07 -0700 (MST)
Cc: John Galbraith <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Reid <sreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Steve> Root's shell being set to something other than zsh would cause
    Steve> the behavior you're seeing.

    Steve> You've probably checked that already, but sometimes the obvious
    Steve> things are the easiest to forget.

Yeah, I have a special user "toor" that is root, but uses
/usr/local/bin/zsh as the shell.  I only actually use "root" itself if
/usr/local is either missing or not installed yet.  I once made the mistake 
of setting the actual root shell to /usr/local/bin/zsh...

John

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