Linux/Unix prompt showing a $ instead of the login name and path. How to fix it.

Sometime you face and issue like your unix/linux terminal prompt is showing dollar sign "$" instead of the user login name and path. So in this blogpost we will see and learn ho to fix it.

Why prompt is showing $?

If you added the new account using useradd then it likely set the new user's login shell to be /bin/sh, which in Ubuntu is a symbolic link to the dash shell. Dash is a simpler shell which doesn't read the ~/.bashrc file and doesn't set the user@host command line prompt.

How to fix it?

Follow below steps to fix shell path for newly created user's login.

1) You can check by looking in the /etc/passwd file, or using

getent passwd "username"

2) and you can change the default shell to the more usual bash using

chsh -s /bin/bash

3) if you are logged in as the user whose shell you want to change, or to change another account's login shell.

sudo chsh -s /bin/bash "username"

To prevent this happening again, you can either specify the login shell on the useradd command line using the -s or --shell options, or use the higher-level utility adduser instead.

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