On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> 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 "#".

That's not enough for me. When I open a terminal intended to be either
root or on a different machine, I open a terminal that's white on red
background. When I open a terminal intended to be me on my local
machine, it's black on white background. This has saved me some pretty
bad mistakes over the years.

SteveT

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