I created a new user by executing

sudo useradd -m harry

When I try to substitute the user by "su - harry" then everything I can see is a "$" (dollar) sign, the autocompletion isn't working and the shell builtins (e.g. source) are not available.

I checked .bashrc and .profile and detected that .bashrc is not getting sourced because $BASH_VERSION is not set.

The code inside .profile looks like follows:

# if running bash

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

    # include .bashrc if it exists

    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then

    . "$HOME/.bashrc"

    fi

fi

The command echo $BASH_VERSION returns nothing.

$ echo $BASH_VERSION



$ 

Shell builtins (source .bashrc, . .bashrc) don't work either.

The SHELL variable value was '/bin/sh' which is alias of dash. I changed it to /bin/bash (export SHELL=/bin/bash) but it didn't have any effects.

When I hardcode ". .bashrc" in .profile (of course, just to check if it would work) I receive several errors:

admin@host:~$ sudo su - harry

-su: 13: /home/harry/.bashrc: shopt: not found

-su: 21: /home/harry/.bashrc: shopt: not found

-su: 105: /home/harry/.bashrc: shopt: not found

-su: 28: /etc/bash_completion: [[: not found

-su: 34: /etc/bash_completion: [[: not found

-su: 51: /etc/bash_completion: Bad substitution

[e]0;u@h: wa]u@h:w$ 

Any ideas how to fix it?

Thank you in advance.
jepetko