turn off bash colored prompts for all users

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400
> >Neal Becker wrote:
> >
> >>I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp.  What's the easiest way to
> >>turn it off for all users (especially root)?
> >
> >There is a whole slew of things in /etc/profile that turn on
> >annoying environment variables which enable things like that.
> >Grep for the one responsible, do an rpm -q -f /etc/profile/whatever
> >to see which package inflicted it on you, then yum -C erase
> >that package (of course, checking to see there aren't
> >other more critical things provided by the package :-).
> >
> 
> Personally, I've never liked color ls, largely because it's almost
> impossible to find a chart that tells you what the colors mean.  I
> used to track down where that was set and disable it, but that can
> get changed by an update.  Now, I just put the following line near
> the bottom of ~/.bashrc:
> 
> alias ls=ls
> 
> and that overrides anything done earlier.  Maybe there's something
> equivalent for this that will work for all users on prompts.

The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh:

mcpierce at mcpierce-laptop:temp (master) $ rpm -qf /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh 
coreutils-8.21-11.fc19.x86_64

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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
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