Bakewell- starting bash in root (SOLVED)

[khamryn]

Hi everyone.

I am trying to configure bash to run in root by default in LinuxBBQ-bakewell. I know I can get it in root by typing "bash", but I guess I'm used to most other distros where it bash is used right after I get into root automatically. I've spent a few hours searching and editing .bashrc and .bash_profile with no luck. Any lead will be most appreciated.

example:
after login "su" I get:
"#"

what I want after login "su":
"root@grill:/#"

Thanks in advance.

[wuxmedia]

you are in a root shell, change your prompt.

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=25803
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-lin ... rompt.html

mine looks like this default;;

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force_color_prompt=yes

if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
    if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
        # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
        # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
        # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
        color_prompt=yes
    else
        color_prompt=
    fi
fi

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$$
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

[khamryn]

Thanks for the tip wux. I searched you praising on prompt shell and found all it needed was a quick edit to the /etc/passwd file. I updated the root to point to :/bin/bash. Thanks for your help.

[wuxmedia]

sorry, I couldn't quite work out your question - that's your login shell.
the default your user logs on with.

Glad you got it solved.

then WTF were you running before? ZSH?

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echo $SHELL

tells you what your current shell is, in future.

[khamryn]

I believe root default was /bin/sh

I never really explored this until now, since my last distro by default opened root with bash shell. Trust me, I'd post my echo if I'd know about it when I made the topic last night :P. Your advice really did help me find what I needed though :).