Prompt Games

[H. L. Rogers]

In article <3002 at codas.att.com> mikel at codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>In article <392 at lscvax.UUCP> ram at lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
>>
>> Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ]
>
>The best joke to play on a novice:
>
>PS1="login: "

We once had a novice who insisted he had to be root to do his job.
We didn't want to risk machine integrity, so we made him a non-root
user and set PS1="# ".  Took him three weeks and scores of temper tantrums
before he looked at his .profile!

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"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when 
 will you ever find time to do it over." - from a wise sage.
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