Root prompt not set to #
wsw70 opened this issue · 3 comments
wsw70 commented
The prompt for the user root is $ → it should be set to # when the uid is 0
sobolevn commented
Hi @wsw70!
it should be set to # when the uid is 0
Is this a strict rule? Or a well-known convention?
wsw70 commented
Is this a strict rule? Or a well-known convention?
I cannot really tell, but in 25 years of administrating UNIX systems I have always seen the root prompts as #.
The user's ones vary, but for sh-derived shells (bash, zsh) it was $ and for csh-derived ones (tcsh, ...) it was %.
It is not a "strict rule" because one can change the PS1 prompt, but I would say that it is a standard. Also see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/291729/why-is-the-default-symbol-for-a-user-shell-and-the-default-symbol-for-a-root