On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700, Rick wrote in message 
<20170923063536.gx11...@linuxmafia.com>:

> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com):
> 
> > The problem with su is that you may forget you are superuser and
> > start doing dangerous things,
> > 
> > That's it.
> 
> What a pity there isn't a visual indicator that you are weilding root
> authority like, I don't know, maybe the bash shell prompt ending
> character changing from "$" to "#".
> 
> It could work.  Somebody should try it, some time.

..I still miss and prefer the S.u.S.E.-5.2 way, root had a 
nice red background color in xterms, fairly hard to miss.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.
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