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Re[2]: login to bash
At 12:52 PM 3/26/2001, Uwe Mayer wrote:
>I wanted to use login to change user while working. "su" should be a
>better choice for this, but su always returns "su: cannot set user id:
>Not owner" if I try to change to *a different* user id.
>When I am logged in as 'merkosh' and do 'su merkosh' it scrambles my
>prompt:
>$ su merkosh
>\[\033]0;\w\007
>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
Remove this from your prompt or specify /bin/bash as your shell in
/etc/passwd.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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