On Friday, 3 December 2021 12:08:05 GMT tastytea wrote:
> On 2021-12-03 11:17+0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Is there a way to set the colour of a bash prompt according to
> > whether the user has SSH'd in?
> >
> > This machine is a compile host for some others on the LAN, and it
> > would be helpful if it were more obvious that I'm connected to
> > another machine. Of course, the standard prompt tells me the machine
> > name, but something more conspicuous would help.
>
> When you are connected via SSH, the environment variable SSH_CONNECTION
> is set. I store the color in a variable and set it to yellow if
> `[[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]`. I can't give you the exact snippet
> since I use Zsh, but it should be possible to use a variable as color
> in bash's prompt?
>
> Kind regards, tastyteaThis link expands upon tastytea's idea: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/217270/change-ps1-color-when-connected-to-other-host-via-ssh
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