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Funkey

I installed a new user on my new install of 9.2. When I log into that user the only thing displayed is $. It should be david-freebsd: /home/david $. How can I get the other parts to display? When I use root it displays ok.

Thanks.
 
For what it's worth, (not tested very hard though), a bash shell will, somewhat unlike Linux, require a $HOME/.bash_profile if you want to set the prompt. In Linux, one can use .bashrc (that doesn't get a tag because it's a Linux system), but in FreeBSD, I've found (but I repeat, I haven't tested this very much, it happened once and now that's how I do it), I would have to either set the prompt in $HOME/.bash_profile or, if setting it in .bashrc, have a line in .bash_profile reading
Code: 
 source ~/.bashrc
 
Funkey said:
It is using /bin/sh. I will want to change that to bash.
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To change sh into bash, either use (as root) vipw or the pw(8) command, or (as the user himself) chsh.

To change the prompt, add a line like the following to one of bash's startup files for interactive shells (e.g. ~/.bashrc):
Code: 
export PS1="promptstring"
The exact syntax for promptstring is described in the manual: bash(1), see the section PROMPTING. That same manual also explains in detail how bash reads its startup files, see the section INVOCATION.
 
throAU said:
It's worth noting that bash is not part of the base install and will need to be installed from ports first.
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Good call. Consequently, the exact path will be /usr/local/bin/bash rather than /bin/bash, as typically seen on Linux systems.
 
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