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Hello to all,
Does anyone have a clue for the following problem?

When I enter into a terminal console window logged as axadmin user, what I find in the prompt is: “axadmin@sunhost$”.

But, when I switch to root user, with the command “su -“ and enter the correct password, user root is accepted, but the prompt changes to “-s#”.
So, no mention to the user name and hostname, because the expected prompt should be “root@sunhost#”.

This error also happens if I'm axadmin user and I try to log again as axadmin, with command “su - axadmin”. In that case, the prompt becomes “-s$”.

To correct the problem I have to use the command “/bin/uname -S sunhost”.

Has someone experienced this problem before?

Cheers!
Pablo.

You need to look at startup script for root. It must have a bug. It would usually be /.profile but could vary based on root's shell.

Thanks!
Actually I had verified /.profile before. Nothing seems really wrong there.
I believe something is wrong with ./dtprofile file (which refers to /etc/kshrc) for root user and main application administrator.
We have detected that /bin/uname -n shows the wrong hostname when the problem happens. So we believe that other process is attributing a wrong value to the environment variable.
If anybody knows another hint, please reply.
Tks!
Pablo.

Modify root's .profile for a while. Add "uname -a" as the first line and the last line. Then try su'ing to root. Do the two outputs agree?

Man, you are a genius!

By giving this clue, of putting a temporary flag, I could detect the exact line which was bringing the problem.

The doc profile is cleared, but after placing some of these flags inside /etc/khsrc I could find the line and the wrong variable. Now I have changed it and it's ok now.

Thank you very much!
Pablo.