Having colors in bash

[marcus]

I made a reset with VASM and the bash shell in the terminal doesn't have colors anymore, nor does it show  the working directory and other useful stuff. How can I restore that?
Thanks.

[newt]

I think your problem is related to a permissions problem with /etc/skel which is what's used to 'reset' users folders/settings/configs/etc.  As posted by urbanvoodo in this thread (http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3422.msg24479#msg24479), you should adjust the permissions of /etc/skel so that group and others can have read access (recursively).  Once you've changed those permissions you should try the 'reset' method again via VASM.

i checked the /etc/skel folder through thunar(root) and it turns out that all files and folders are set to the following permissions:

owner : root
Access : read/write

group : root
Access : none

others : none

I changed these to:

owner : root
Access : read/write

group : root
Access : read only

others : read only

and then skel worked. these permissions have to applied to every file and folder so its best to use the apply recursively option when the dialog box pops up.

The command would be this (as root):
chmod -R a+r /etc/skel

Hope this helps.

[marcus]

Thanks, but that didn't work. As root, I can see the colors and the informations as before, but as regular user I can't. There must be a configuration file for root and one for the user which tells bash what to display, but I can't find it. Can you help me with this? Maybe I could copy the file for root on the file for user?

[marcus]

Never mind. I found .bashrc in root's home and copied it in user's home and then I used chown as root to give that file to the user. The user now has colors like root. The reset I made must have deleted that file from users's home.