Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!pacbell!hoptoad!unisoft!greywolf
From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes (prompts)
Message-ID: <1309@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 21:10:46 GMT
References: <516@galaxia.zone1.com>
Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
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In article <516@galaxia.zone1.com> dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley) writes:
[ stuff about changing prompts -- deleted, sorry! ]

This brings about the fun I had with a friend's account once...
( he used csh )
set tty=`tty`
set prompt="^M\
\
4.3 BSD UNIX (`hostname`) ($tty:t)
\
login: "
eval "echo alias $user login $user"

----

I got my come-uppance though...someone logged into my machine, on the 
console.  I had forgotten about his interesting prompts that he used fo
various machines.  On a normal tty, I would not have reacted so badly,
but what would YOUR reaction be on a machine that was new to you, when
someone else logs in and you see the following:

[ message of the day ]
***
erase=^H kill=^X intr=^C quit=^\
***

stack overflow - SYSTEM HALTED _
			       ^--- cursor



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