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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:50:24 -0400
From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, lkml@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5 and Zsh bug
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> When running zsh on a Linux 2.5 kernel, the prompt always has a hash 
> sign '#' rather than the normal user '$'.  This probably happens because 
> the shell function privasserted() is returning true for all users.  I 
> know nothing about Posix capabilities but the zsh code for this looks 
> suspicious.

See this for more info:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=163008&repeatmerged=yes