Selon Toby 'qubit' Cubitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I used to give the shell prompts different colours on different > machines to help avoid this. Or rather, the local one would always be > the same colour, but shells under ssh sessions were colour-coded by > machine. > > I've lost the script I wrote for this somewhere in the mists of time > (if I remember right, it was copied and hacked from a bash prompt > example that colour-coded according to the login type: ssh, telnet, > local, etc.)
Here's one I use to make a difference between root (red prompt) and user (green). As for other stations, their prompt stays white. Hope it can help : [ $UID -eq 0 ] && PS1="\e[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED] : \W \! ># \e[0m" || PS1="\e[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED] : \W \! >$ \e[0m" More readable version if test "$UID" = 0 ; then PS1="\e[31m\h:\w # \e[0m" else PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w \!>\e[0m " fi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list