Hi, in the current Milax Distribution the userid printed in the prompt does not change after doing a su to become another user.
The reason for this misbehaviour is not working code in .bashrc (looks like the .bashrc is copied from Linux): The .bashrc uses "who am I" to get the current userid - that works in Linux but not in Solaris, example: bash-3.2# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) bash-3.2# who am i root pts/2 Apr 30 00:16 (t61p) bash-3.2# su - nobody $ id uid=60001(nobody) gid=60001(nobody) $ who am i root pts/2 Apr 30 00:16 (t61p) To get around this, change the line u=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "` in the .bashrc to __id=` id -u ` if [ $__id != 0 ] ; then u=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "` else u="root" fi And copy the .bashrc also into the home directory of root regards Bernd -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
