Good thinking rcgreen, but, even if I su or sudo from any of the accounts or start another shell you are correct it gives me the profile of the bash2 user I'm su'ing or sudoing to. I'm beginning to think its a problem with the group that the bash2 user is in. I'm not positive of this by any means, but I created another bash2 user and assigned it to the bin, and root groups and that seemed to have worked.

I didn't specify a group with the original problem bash2 user so he was in his own group.
Another variable is that for the second bash2 user (that works) I just added with the adduser command instead of using the GUI user manager.

If I get it straightened soon I'll let you know.

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