On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:11:34PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 December 2013 06:39:17 Tom H wrote: > > You can't trust yourself with sudo but you can trust yourself with > > su or login root access... > > I have to make a conscious effort to become root. This reduces the > risk that I will accidentally do something extra foolish. I do not > have root login access and do not want it. The Debian default in this > is very sensible. (As it usually is.)
I put this in my .bashrc: PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' (All one line!) This makes the prompt display in red, giving extra warning. :) This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other virtual terminal. Just comment out the old line, in case you want to go back to the way it was. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131211120718.GA12607@tal