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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>
To: d.vogt@lifebits.de
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Subject: Re: Differrent prompt for remote machines 
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     (Dominik Vogt <d.vogt@lifebits.de>'s message of 
     Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:42:28 +0200)
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On Friday 30 March 2001, at 11 h 42, the keyboard of Dominik Vogt 
<d.vogt@lifebits.de> wrote:

>     For the machine at which I logged in:
> 
>       <username> ...
> 
>     and
> 
>       <username>@<machine> ...
> 
>     for remote logins 

If all the remote connections use SSH (which is highly recommended anyway), 
here is what I use:

if [ -z "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then
    export PROMPT='%# '
else
    export PROMPT='%m: %# '
fi
export RPROMPT='%4~'