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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: su(1) vs shell prompts 
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 17:58:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 17:58:12 1984
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As an experiment, su(1) has been changed so that when su'ing to a system
userid (numeric uid < 100), the prompt is not "> " but "name> ", where
"name" is the userid one is su'ing to.  This avoids the problem of getting
confused over which system user one is right now.  It looks a bit odd, on
trying it; we'll see if we get used to it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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