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I have installed zsh and I am using Oh My ZSH plugins. Everything works fine, but when I become a root user, it changes to the default zsh theme.



What should I do to make the Oh My ZSH configuration as the default zsh for all users including root?



I have tried using the chsh -s /bin/zsh root



That gave me zsh but not oh_my_zsh



I also tried cp -R /home/user/.zshrc /root/.zshrcing to get oh_my_zsh for root, but nothing worked.



(I don't need zsh but I need oh_my_zsh for all the user in the system)






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  • How are you becoming root?

    – frlan
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:01






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    How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

    – Adaephon
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:26






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    I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

    – ayik
    Jan 2 at 2:57
















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I have installed zsh and I am using Oh My ZSH plugins. Everything works fine, but when I become a root user, it changes to the default zsh theme.



What should I do to make the Oh My ZSH configuration as the default zsh for all users including root?



I have tried using the chsh -s /bin/zsh root



That gave me zsh but not oh_my_zsh



I also tried cp -R /home/user/.zshrc /root/.zshrcing to get oh_my_zsh for root, but nothing worked.



(I don't need zsh but I need oh_my_zsh for all the user in the system)






zsh







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  • How are you becoming root?

    – frlan
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:01






  • 1





    How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

    – Adaephon
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:26






  • 1





    I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

    – ayik
    Jan 2 at 2:57














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I have installed zsh and I am using Oh My ZSH plugins. Everything works fine, but when I become a root user, it changes to the default zsh theme.



What should I do to make the Oh My ZSH configuration as the default zsh for all users including root?



I have tried using the chsh -s /bin/zsh root



That gave me zsh but not oh_my_zsh



I also tried cp -R /home/user/.zshrc /root/.zshrcing to get oh_my_zsh for root, but nothing worked.



(I don't need zsh but I need oh_my_zsh for all the user in the system)






zsh







share|improve this question
















I have installed zsh and I am using Oh My ZSH plugins. Everything works fine, but when I become a root user, it changes to the default zsh theme.



What should I do to make the Oh My ZSH configuration as the default zsh for all users including root?



I have tried using the chsh -s /bin/zsh root



That gave me zsh but not oh_my_zsh



I also tried cp -R /home/user/.zshrc /root/.zshrcing to get oh_my_zsh for root, but nothing worked.



(I don't need zsh but I need oh_my_zsh for all the user in the system)






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  • How are you becoming root?

    – frlan
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:01






  • 1





    How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

    – Adaephon
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:26






  • 1





    I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

    – ayik
    Jan 2 at 2:57



















  • How are you becoming root?

    – frlan
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:01






  • 1





    How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

    – Adaephon
    Sep 8 '14 at 12:26






  • 1





    I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

    – ayik
    Jan 2 at 2:57

















How are you becoming root?

– frlan
Sep 8 '14 at 12:01





How are you becoming root?

– frlan
Sep 8 '14 at 12:01




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1





How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

– Adaephon
Sep 8 '14 at 12:26





How did you install oh my zsh in the first place? Any why not just do the same for root?

– Adaephon
Sep 8 '14 at 12:26




1




1





I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

– ayik
Jan 2 at 2:57





I think cFINNY's answer on stackoverflow.com/a/42193058/1408600 is what you need. I've done that for months on servers i managed. It works for root and all users

– ayik
Jan 2 at 2:57










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I made symbolic links to my zsh files in my home dir, that seems to work fine: 



ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh           /root/.oh-my-zsh

ln -s $HOME/.zshrc               /root/.zshrc





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    This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

    – daumie
    Aug 17 '16 at 10:11






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    If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

    – Jam Risser
    Mar 3 '17 at 8:14






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    Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

    – Akash Agarwal
    Apr 7 '17 at 13:55








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    I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

    – Melebius
    Jul 18 '17 at 8:48






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    I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

    – Eliah Kagan
    Jul 30 '17 at 20:29



















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Just run the install command as root user (after doing sudo su)



sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"





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      I made symbolic links to my zsh files in my home dir, that seems to work fine: 



      ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh           /root/.oh-my-zsh
      
ln -s $HOME/.zshrc               /root/.zshrc





      share|improve this answer





















      • 2





        This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

        – daumie
        Aug 17 '16 at 10:11






      • 1





        If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

        – Jam Risser
        Mar 3 '17 at 8:14






      • 1





        Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

        – Akash Agarwal
        Apr 7 '17 at 13:55








      • 2





        I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

        – Melebius
        Jul 18 '17 at 8:48






      • 4





        I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

        – Eliah Kagan
        Jul 30 '17 at 20:29
















      19














      I made symbolic links to my zsh files in my home dir, that seems to work fine: 



      ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh           /root/.oh-my-zsh
      
ln -s $HOME/.zshrc               /root/.zshrc





      share|improve this answer





















      • 2





        This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

        – daumie
        Aug 17 '16 at 10:11






      • 1





        If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

        – Jam Risser
        Mar 3 '17 at 8:14






      • 1





        Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

        – Akash Agarwal
        Apr 7 '17 at 13:55








      • 2





        I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

        – Melebius
        Jul 18 '17 at 8:48






      • 4





        I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

        – Eliah Kagan
        Jul 30 '17 at 20:29














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      I made symbolic links to my zsh files in my home dir, that seems to work fine: 



      ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh           /root/.oh-my-zsh
      
ln -s $HOME/.zshrc               /root/.zshrc





      share|improve this answer















      I made symbolic links to my zsh files in my home dir, that seems to work fine: 



      ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh           /root/.oh-my-zsh
      
ln -s $HOME/.zshrc               /root/.zshrc






      share|improve this answer














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      • 2





        This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

        – daumie
        Aug 17 '16 at 10:11






      • 1





        If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

        – Jam Risser
        Mar 3 '17 at 8:14






      • 1





        Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

        – Akash Agarwal
        Apr 7 '17 at 13:55








      • 2





        I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

        – Melebius
        Jul 18 '17 at 8:48






      • 4





        I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

        – Eliah Kagan
        Jul 30 '17 at 20:29














      • 2





        This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

        – daumie
        Aug 17 '16 at 10:11






      • 1





        If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

        – Jam Risser
        Mar 3 '17 at 8:14






      • 1





        Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

        – Akash Agarwal
        Apr 7 '17 at 13:55








      • 2





        I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

        – Melebius
        Jul 18 '17 at 8:48






      • 4





        I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

        – Eliah Kagan
        Jul 30 '17 at 20:29








      2




      2





      This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

      – daumie
      Aug 17 '16 at 10:11





      This should be the accepted answer, eliminates the hustle of installing zsh twice.

      – daumie
      Aug 17 '16 at 10:11




      1




      1





      If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

      – Jam Risser
      Mar 3 '17 at 8:14





      If you do that, it actually doesn't make sense to link .oh-my-zsh, because the .zshrc still references the .oh-my-zsh of your original user.

      – Jam Risser
      Mar 3 '17 at 8:14




      1




      1





      Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

      – Akash Agarwal
      Apr 7 '17 at 13:55







      Didn't work for me when trying to link from non-root to root, ended up installing it for the non-root as well

      – Akash Agarwal
      Apr 7 '17 at 13:55






      2




      2





      I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

      – Melebius
      Jul 18 '17 at 8:48





      I tried it and could not use oh-my-zsh plugins using this method. They were considered insecure by compinit.

      – Melebius
      Jul 18 '17 at 8:48




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      I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

      – Eliah Kagan
      Jul 30 '17 at 20:29





      I recommend against this method, at least if one does not first consider the security risks. Any program the user runs can edit those configuration files without prompting the user--because they belong to the user, not root--and thus can cause root to perform any action whatsoever next time root uses zsh! Would you be willing to add (or okay with someone else adding) a warning about that to this answer?

      – Eliah Kagan
      Jul 30 '17 at 20:29













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      Just run the install command as root user (after doing sudo su)



      sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"





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        Just run the install command as root user (after doing sudo su)



        sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"





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          Just run the install command as root user (after doing sudo su)



          sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"





          share|improve this answer















          Just run the install command as root user (after doing sudo su)



          sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"






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