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When I ssh into my server all but one of my users has the color scheme. The one that doesn't, well everything shows up as gray text. Is there a way I can change this color scheme?

Also, why would that one user's color scheme allow for only gray text when I ssh from putty, while the others have the different file types colored? My server is ubuntu with gnome and when I go into the terminal, this user has a color scheme (ex. ls command lists folders as light blue and bold)

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Normally you would set colors in ~/.bashrc

Perhaps copy the ~/.bashrc from another user or /etc/skel/.bashrc

What colors do you want to set ? Prompt? ls ?

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I tried both, neither worked =(. I just want the default colors that show up for all other users. I haven't changed any of these settings (to my knowledge) for the user that doesn't have a color scheme showing up. – user784637 Dec 28 '11 at 0:22
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I understand "colors" are not working, but I can not tell from what you posted if the problem is with .bashrc or your putty configuration , nor am I certain what colors ? you mean colors in command output such as ls ? colors in the prompt ? Can you ssh in (rather then putty) and confirm that the .bashrc is the same between users and that you are not sourcing a file ? – bodhi.zazen Dec 28 '11 at 1:05
Thanks for the clarification, I was unsure what you were asking. I mean the colors in the command output. I just ssh'd and when I run ls, the output is colored for all but one user. I don't think the problem lies in putty. What do you mean by sourcing a file? I deleted the .bashrc for the problem user and copied over a .bashrc from a user with the colored command output but I'm still having the same problem =( – user784637 Dec 28 '11 at 1:14
Okay, I realized the problem. There was a conflict w/ some stuff in .bash_profile, thanks for all your help =) – user784637 Dec 28 '11 at 1:20
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glad you got it sorted. – bodhi.zazen Dec 28 '11 at 4:41

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