Max Rees wrote:
> On Wed Jul 01 01:54 PM, wastelander1972(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Running KDE DE and after entering the su command, I have an
> > unreadable
> > name as root user:
> >
> > jordan on Adelie-BC80D0 ~ % su
> > Password:
> > %n on %B%F{white}%m%f%b %~ %B%F{green}%#%f%b apk update
> >
> > I have the default regional settings enabled, and the encoding in
> > konsole is set to UTF-8. Any help? Thanks.
> This is unrelated to UTF-8 but rather the various shells in play.
>
> The default user interactive shell we use is zsh, but the default root
> shell (except for the live CD) is /bin/sh, which is a symlink to dash
> for some time now.
>
> What's happening here is when you run "su", the prompt variable $PS1 is
> being retained in the environment from your user's zsh session, and it
> contains a bunch of zsh-specific escapes that dash doesn't understand,
> so it just prints them literally (and thus the prompt looks really
> weird).
>
> Typically my advice is that you should always login as root using "su -"
> instead of "su", the difference being the new shell will be run as a
> "login shell" (/etc/profile and ~/.profile will be sourced) and the
> environment will be cleared properly. You should then get a nice simple
> "<hostname> #" prompt in that case from our default /etc/profile. This
> is applicable to anywhere you use the "su" command to login as root, or
> even as another user ("su - user" instead of "su user").
>
> Max
Thanks so much for your detailed explanation, I am using sudo - now and, more importantly, I think that I found a workaround for the consolekit issue, I am posting it in the proper thread.
Received on Wed Jul 01 2020 - 22:35:15 UTC