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Author: Rick Moen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dvalin@???):

> If the '#' and "root@hostname" escape the attention of a person
> entrusted with root privileges, then why not make the root prompt bright red:
>
> root@ratatosk:/home/erik# export PS1="\[\033[1;31m\]\u@\h:\W\$ \[\033[0;0m\]"


It's a very good idea -- or, as Arnt says, set the background colour
(which you can do with X11 resources if launching root shell directly
from the window manager).

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