BASH and/or .BASHRC not working properly after SU or SSH login unless run “bash” command

Question

I have an Amazon EC2 Machine running Ubuntu 10.04.

The default user, ubuntu\'s .bashrc seems to be behaving properly, but if I ssh or

Answer 1

If, in fact, your shell isn't bash, you can try to change it like so:

usermod -s /bin/bash mikey

If /bin/bash is the location of bash on that system.