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From: vern@zebra.UUCP (Vernon C. Hoxie)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.sources,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: KSHPR: prompt generator for .kshrc
Summary: My solution
Message-ID: <168@zebra.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 17:20:51 GMT
References: <19817@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Colo.
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In article <19817@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> The following is a l'il qwik'n'dirty you may find useful.  If you know of some
> other method to determine whether one is running su'd or not, please share it.
> This posting is to unix-pc.sources and comp.sys.att since it's of potential use

Here's what I did:
To ~/.kshrc add: 	alias ck='/bin/su -su'
			( ck for Clark Kent )

Change /.profile to:
	if [ "$SHFLAG" != 1 ]
	then
		exec /bin/ksh
	fi

Change /.kshrc to:
	PS1="Root ! > "
	PS2="Root ? "
	PS3="Root # "

It works for me, vern.

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