When logged in as root to a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 distro, tab completion works as expected. Upon creating a new user with:

useradd -m name

… tab completion does not work for that account. Hitting tab gives whitespace. In addition, the prompt for the new account is different, despite having a virtually identical .bashrc as root.

diff /root/.bashrc /home/name/.bashrc gives:

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< #if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
< #    . /etc/bash_completion
< #fi
---
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
   . /etc/bash_completion
fi

The /bash/completion if block is actually UNCOMMENTED in the user .bashrc, not the other way around. I tried commenting out to see if that made a difference and it did not.

Something doesn't seem right. I also tried installing the bash_completion package to no avail.

Any tips?

Try also using

-s /bin/bash

with that command - that might work.

James

You da man. As soon as I saw your reply, I realized "chsh" to /bin/bash. All is well. Thanks!