login to bash

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

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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