Regardless of which directory I'm in the PS1 prompt only displays $
for domain users, whereas, if I login using a local user the prompt displays as expected.
The ~/.bashrc
file for the test domain user has been restored as per the instructions here.
If I su
into a local user and then back into the domain user the prompt displays correctly.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
UPDATE
The contents of this user's .bashrc
are:
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return;;
esac
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$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
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# colored GCC warnings and errors
#export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
fi
And the contents of the .profile
file are:
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.
# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022
# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
bash
)? My guess would be that the domain user's login shell is not checking for and sourcing the~/.bashrc
file (compare how the default~/.profile
does it). – steeldriver Mar 10 '17 at 15:38.profile
from /etc/skel or just the.bashrc
? – steeldriver Mar 10 '17 at 15:43.bashrc
. It didn't appear to have created a.profile
file so I've now copied the.profile
which seems to have not made a difference. As for the login shell, I have no idea if I'm honest, I just connect over SSH and assumed it would be the same as the default, but apparently not. – ScottishTapWater Mar 10 '17 at 15:46~/.profile
. On typical Ubuntu system, the~/.profile
checks if you're runningbash
and sources~/.bashrc
. Likely is that yours is missing that part. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 10 '17 at 15:49ls -l /proc/$$/exe
– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 10 '17 at 15:51/bin/dash
. If it's of any relevance, thepasswd
file entry forsssd
is:sssd:x:130:137:SSSD system user,,,:/var/lib/sss:/bin/false
– ScottishTapWater Mar 10 '17 at 15:52sss
but I doubt the shell / password entry of thesssd
user itself is relevant here: there's likely ansssd.conf
file somewhere that specifies the default shell – steeldriver Mar 10 '17 at 15:57dash
. Since you said you're logging in viassh
, look at ssh man page,it has certain config files what can run before logging in, so you should be able to source .bashrc from there, but what you really want to do is change interactive shell to bash. dash is very minimalistic and isn't really for interaactive use, unless you know how to use vim editing mode – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 10 '17 at 15:59~/.bashrc
; ii) the contents of your~/.profile
and iii) tell us whether you have a~/.bash_profile
file and, if you do, show us the contents of that as well. This comes down to the different types of shell session and will be easy to solve if you show us these files. – terdon Mar 10 '17 at 17:36~/.bash_profile
file? And what files are these? A normal user's or a "domain" user's? – terdon Mar 13 '17 at 14:32