Take the 2-minute tour ×  On a dedicated server we use the shell
is setup differently between accounts, which is quite
irritating. When I ssh into most users I get:  [user@machine
some_dir]$  However, with some accounts I get:   I keep a lot of
shells open to various machines, and there are a lot of
different accounts. I have the ability to either make everyone
have the same ~/.bashrc, but I also believe there is a global
config somewhere in /etc  What's the fastest way to make sure I
get the same shell whenever I ssh?  share|improve this question
2 Answers 2  up vote 1 down vote accepted  Your best bet is a
mix of the two approaches. Bash will always load ~/.bashrc. You
should place a standard file in /etc/skel/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc
that in turn sources something like /etc/bash.bashrc. (The
version in skel will get used for new user accounts.) Put your
defaults in the latter file.  Example user .bashrc:  # this line
activates the system-wide default settings . /etc/bash.bashrc  #
users can add any custom .b