[olug] best practices for modifying root's profile in Suse

[dthacker9 at cox.net]

I'm want to build a standard root prompt with some extra info built into it. The file /etc/profile cautions against modifying it, and suggests that I use /etc/profile.local  I created the /etc/profile.local and added the PS1 string, but didn't seem to get a read on login.   For now I've added a .profile to /root.  Is that the way you usually do this?

TIA 
Dave Thacker