Different /bin/bash shells for admin and non-admin users?

Question

QUICK NOTE: I'm not sure if its necessary if I need to mention this but I'm running a chroot environment inside my /home directory

So I wasn't sure how to really google search this. I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate.

Problem 1:

I'm running Ubuntu-server 14.04 and I'm able to successfully connect to ssh. However, I notice that the prefixes for a admin user and a non admin user is different.

Nebulous is the admin account (the account created for me during system install).

Using username "nebulous".
Authenticating with public key "" from agent
nebulous@Nebulous-Linux:~$

Appmanager is the non admin account.

Using username "appmanager".
Authenticating with public key "" from agent
-bash-4.3$

Prefixes to compare are:

• nebulous@Nebulous-Linux:~$
• -bash-4.3$

If both users are set to use /bin/bash:

nebulous:x:1000:1000:nebulous,,,:/home/nebulous:/bin/bash
appmanager:x:1002:1001:,,,,:/:/bin/bash

Why are the prefixes different?

This also seems to cause a problem with aliases.

Problem 2:

If I login with nebulous, then su appmanager, and execute an alias, it works properly. However, if I were to login with a non-admin account and try to execute an alias, it doesnt recognize the same alias

Admin Terminal:

appmanager@Nebulous-Linux:/home/appmanager$ helloworld
Hello, World!

Non-Admin Terminal:

-bash-4.3$ helloworld
-bash: helloworld: command not found

What causes the shell to not recognize the alias?

Answer 1

I fixed my both my problems.

All that's needed is to source path/to/user/.bashrc

I get a proper prefix:

appmanager@Nebulous-Linux:/$

and my aliases also work.

appmanager@Nebulous-Linux:/$ helloworld
Hello, World!

I also apologize for misuse of the AskUbuntu Q&A site. Thanks for the tip @Fabby