Stuck In su in CentOS 6

Question

I accidentally did

su

with no arguments while logged into the root account.

It then put me into su and at the beginning of the command line, it now shows

-bash-4.1#

How do I "get out of" su and return back to just root?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-24 03:56:15Z

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Same way you get out of every other shell.

exit

answered Dec 24, 2012 at 3:56

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OR pressing CTRL-d at the prompt
– mdpc
Dec 24, 2012 at 3:56
But when I do exit, it just completely quits out of PuTTY and when I log back in, its still showing the same.
– ncms1
Dec 24, 2012 at 3:57
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That doesn't sound right; su shouldn't have caused that. Did you perhaps do something else?
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Dec 24, 2012 at 3:58
It was just su and maybe a - at the end if I can try to remember my hardest.
– ncms1
Dec 24, 2012 at 3:59
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It is not "stuck in su". Your shell configuration files are missing. Copy them back from /etc/skel.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Dec 24, 2012 at 4:21

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daya · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-24 03:56:57Z

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su and root are the same thing.

To login as another user, do

su username

answered Dec 24, 2012 at 3:56

daya

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But how do I return to the normal [root@hostname]#
– ncms1
Dec 24, 2012 at 3:58
that is just the prompt you are talking about. you can do exit to leave the current prompt or do "source ~/.bashrc" or "source ~/.cshrc" to source default profile of your shell.
– daya
Dec 24, 2012 at 4:02
That returns No such file or directory on CentOS 6
– ncms1
Dec 24, 2012 at 4:04

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