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Okay, I installed a copy of Redhat 7.1 today, and after that, installed MySQL, Apache, PHP, and Samba, in that order. Now, instead of saying [root@localhost] at the shell, it says bash-2.04.
I dont know why it happened.
Thanks jharris, I retraced my steps and found out what happened. I access my web server using Samba, logging in as root on my windows machine and mapping a network drive to access the linux box. Problem was, when I logged in with root on the windows machine, it would only let me stay in the /root/ directory, and I couldnt access my web server files.
I did a "usermod -d / root" to change the root's home dir to /, so I could access the full server. After that, I got the bash-2.04# thing, so I reverted the root home back to /root/ and got my original prompt back.
Is there a way to change a user's home directory, and automatically move the files associated with that user?
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