[olug] best practices for modifying root's profile in Suse

[Jay Swackhamer]

If the modifications are just for your root user, then I'd put the
modified profile it in the /root home.

In environments where you might be changing the hardware or duplicating
installations over several machines, it's less work backup/lay down a
/root with your modifications than several files elsewhere.

> I'm want to build a standard root prompt with some extra info built into
> it. The file /etc/profile cautions against modifying it, and suggests that
> I use /etc/profile.local  I created the /etc/profile.local and added the
> PS1 string, but didn't seem to get a read on login.   For now I've added a
> .profile to /root.  Is that the way you usually do this?
>
> TIA
> Dave Thacker
>
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