Le 23/09/2017 à 21:56, Steve Litt a écrit :
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 21:45:04 +0200
> Didier Kryn<kryn@???> wrote:
>
>> Le 23/09/2017 à 20:20, Steve Litt a écrit :
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Means you must have one terminal profile for every location you
>> ssh to.
> No it doesn't. If I'm sshed anywhere, it's a red background, same as if
> I'm root. Basically, if my terminal is black on white, everything's
> "business as usual." If it's white on dark red, watch out, check
> everything, check twice.
>
>> And you forbid yourself to use su or ssh from the command
>> line, because this doesn't change the color scheme of the terminal.
> No forbidding. I simply run a red terminal if I'm going to ssh. It's
> perhaps a little discipline, but no biggy.
>
> And now that you mention it, I could have shellscripts ssht and sut
> that spawn a red terminal and then run the rest of the command on the
> red terminal.
>
>> It's pretty heavy to manage all the necessary terminal profiles
>> - I used gnome-terminal when I experimented with this method, a dozen
>> years ago. I eventually found it complicated my life a lot.
> I don't think I'm taking it as far as you did. I have two terminals:
> black on white means "business as usual", while white on dark
> red means BEWARE, WATCH OUT, DANGER, PELEGRO, ACHTUNG.
Well, I think we've got a comprehensive review of the strategies
used to remind the user s?he's acting as root, and they all rely on colour.
Didier
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