On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:28:30 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> > 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).

Do both; that way you get a warning when you log in as root in an X session, and also when you log in in a tty.

Cheers,

Ron.
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