> On Sep 23, 2017, at 4:52 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI > <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700 > Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > >> 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 run xfce-console with five tabs open; two logged-in as user, the sprompts > are black; one logged in as root, the prompt is red; two others logged in as > root on remote boxes, their prompts are green and blue. > > It is simple enough to change PS1='\n\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w \$ \[\033[0m\]' > in the various .ashrc to the colour you want/need. > > Been using that for years, never had a problem.
This is a good solution, and one I’ve used from time to time, myself. I wish it were the default out of the box on more systems. jf -- John Franklin frank...@tux.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
