I have debian 7 x64 wheezy machine on digital ocean. Every time I add a new user the user prompt is empty. I only have a dollar ($) and nothing like shikhar@server: on my prompt. I cannot access history as well, pressing up and down types ^[[A and the tab key doesn't list anything as well.
How do I fix this?
Add the option -s /bin/bash while creating new users this will setup '/bin/bash' as default (login-)shell for your newly created user.
You can always change your current shell to bash with exec bash. Existing users can be edited with vipw (there you can change the default shell)
Check out your /etc/passwd and makes sure the last field for the user (shell) is set to /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh
