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Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"

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From: Nemeth Ervin <airwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: John Galbraith <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"
Date: 03 Jan 2000 19:23:38 +0100
Cc: Steve Reid <sreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: John Galbraith's message of "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:14:07 -0700 (MST)"
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>>>>> John Galbraith writes:

>>>>> "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...

I have a "suz" function wich sets te SHELL parameter to zsh and does an exec
zsh after suing.

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References:
- PS1 corrupted through "su"
  - From: John Galbraith
- Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"
  - From: Steve Reid
- Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"
  - From: John Galbraith

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