How do I get prompt colours and auto-complete on 18.04 for a new user created with useradd?












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I use Tilix, which is imo one of the best VTE based terminal emulators for Linux. If I create an Ubuntu 16.04 image on DigitalOcean, connect to it via SSH and then configure a new user (as below), everything is fine. I get highlighted the path, directories, username, etc.:



useradd -m username

passwd username

usermod -a -G sudo username

su username


But if I do the same with an 18.04 image the highlighting doesn't work and also autocomplete and keyboard arrow, etc don't work. Why is this? And how can I change the behavior so that it works like in 16.04?



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bash completion is installed and auto-complete also works if I am logged in as root (even though without the highlighting). But as soon as I su username autocomplete is also gone






command-line 18.04 bash auto-completion prompt







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    I use Tilix, which is imo one of the best VTE based terminal emulators for Linux. If I create an Ubuntu 16.04 image on DigitalOcean, connect to it via SSH and then configure a new user (as below), everything is fine. I get highlighted the path, directories, username, etc.:



    useradd -m username
    
passwd username
    
usermod -a -G sudo username
    
su username


    But if I do the same with an 18.04 image the highlighting doesn't work and also autocomplete and keyboard arrow, etc don't work. Why is this? And how can I change the behavior so that it works like in 16.04?



    EDIT:
    bash completion is installed and auto-complete also works if I am logged in as root (even though without the highlighting). But as soon as I su username autocomplete is also gone






    command-line 18.04 bash auto-completion prompt







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      I use Tilix, which is imo one of the best VTE based terminal emulators for Linux. If I create an Ubuntu 16.04 image on DigitalOcean, connect to it via SSH and then configure a new user (as below), everything is fine. I get highlighted the path, directories, username, etc.:



      useradd -m username
      
passwd username
      
usermod -a -G sudo username
      
su username


      But if I do the same with an 18.04 image the highlighting doesn't work and also autocomplete and keyboard arrow, etc don't work. Why is this? And how can I change the behavior so that it works like in 16.04?



      EDIT:
      bash completion is installed and auto-complete also works if I am logged in as root (even though without the highlighting). But as soon as I su username autocomplete is also gone






      command-line 18.04 bash auto-completion prompt







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      I use Tilix, which is imo one of the best VTE based terminal emulators for Linux. If I create an Ubuntu 16.04 image on DigitalOcean, connect to it via SSH and then configure a new user (as below), everything is fine. I get highlighted the path, directories, username, etc.:



      useradd -m username
      
passwd username
      
usermod -a -G sudo username
      
su username


      But if I do the same with an 18.04 image the highlighting doesn't work and also autocomplete and keyboard arrow, etc don't work. Why is this? And how can I change the behavior so that it works like in 16.04?



      EDIT:
      bash completion is installed and auto-complete also works if I am logged in as root (even though without the highlighting). But as soon as I su username autocomplete is also gone






      command-line 18.04 bash auto-completion prompt




      command-line 18.04 bash auto-completion prompt






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