08-18-2005
Not sure I completely understand what you're saying but you can usually control the command prompt's appearance with the ~/.bashrc file. You can change users' home directories by manually editing /etc/passwd. Try changing the permissions on the home directories to rid yourself of the chroot errors; try chmod 0777 ./ -R as root and see if it fixes the problem. If so, don't forget to lock the files back down when you've figured out the issue.
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