Setting default shell colours for a new user

[matthewkeogh50]

Hi all,

I've just picked up my first raspberry pi for use as a home media server. I am running raspbian jessie lite (https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) I've enabled shh and created a new user for myself... but when logging in via kitty the original pi user has nicely formatted colours for the directories and files etc, where as the user I created, everything is black

pi user

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matthew user (which was created using "useradd matthew")

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Could anyone please advise how I get the "matthew" account to be like the "pi" account in terms of colours.

Thanks.

[MaxK1]

I think you'll find everything you need in /home/pi/.bashrc (Yes, there is a leading dot in the file name)
You could simply copy that to /home/mattew and change the owner or create a new /home/matthew/.bashrc with just the bits you want.

[matthewkeogh50]

Thanks MaxK1

It needed both .bashrc and .profile

[MaxK1]

Good catch.