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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to change prompt Post 302188206 by era on Wednesday 23rd of April 2008 01:51:28 AM
Old 04-23-2008
Depends somewhat on the shell. In Bourne-compatible shells, the variable PS1 determines the primary prompt. There's also PS2 and PS4 (sic) for secondary and tertiary prompts. See the manual page for your shell for more information.

Code:
PS1='root@server # '

The secondary prompt is what you see when you leave a quote open and continue on the next line. It is usually set to "> " by default.

Code:
# echo "hello
> world"

If your shell is csh or tcsh, those are not Bourne-compatible (but have a manual page, too).
 

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sasl_chalprompt_t(3SASL)		      Simple Authentication Security Layer Library Functions			  sasl_chalprompt_t(3SASL)

NAME
sasl_chalprompt_t - prompt for input in response to a challenge SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsasl [ library ... ] #include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_chalprompt_t(void *context, int id, const char *challenge, const char *prompt, const char *defresult, const char **result, unsigned *len); DESCRIPTION
Use the sasl_chalprompt_t() callback interface to prompt for input in response to a server challenge. PARAMETERS
context The context from the callback record. id The callback id. id can have a value of SASL_CB_ECHOPROMPT or SASL_CB_NOECHOPROMPT challenge The server's challenge. prompt A prompt for the user. defresult The default result. The value of defresult can be NULL result The user's response. result is a null-terminated string. len The length of the user's response. RETURN VALUES
Like other SASL callback functions, sasl_chalprompt_t() returns an integer that corresponds to a SASL error code. See <sasl.h> for a com- plete list of SASL error codes. ERRORS
SASL_OK The call to sasl_chalprompt_t() was successful. See sasl_errors(3SASL) for information on SASL error codes. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWlibsasl | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sasl_errors(3SASL), sasl_server_new(3SASL), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Oct 2003 sasl_chalprompt_t(3SASL)
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