On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700 Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 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 "#". That's not enough for me. When I open a terminal intended to be either root or on a different machine, I open a terminal that's white on red background. When I open a terminal intended to be me on my local machine, it's black on white background. This has saved me some pretty bad mistakes over the years. SteveT Steve Litt September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng