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10.5: Fix the sudo shell prompt
Authored by: saint42 on Wed, Mar 19 2008 at 4:22PM PDT

Personally, I use this setting in .profile:

PS1="\u@\h:\w> "

This shows me who am I, what machine I am on, and what path:

ex:
saint@iMac:~>
saint@iMac:/System/Library>
root@iMac:/goinfre>