On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700, Rick wrote in message
<20170923063536.GX11717@???>:

> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):
>
> > 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.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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