> On Sep 23, 2017, at 4:52 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@???> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:35:37 -0700
> Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
>> 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 run xfce-console with five tabs open; two logged-in as user, the sprompts are black; one logged in as root, the prompt is red; two others logged in as root on remote boxes, their prompts are green and blue.
>
> It is simple enough to change PS1='\n\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w \$ \[\033[0m\]' in the various .ashrc to the colour you want/need.
>
> Been using that for years, never had a problem.

This is a good solution, and one I’ve used from time to time, myself. I wish it were the default out of the box on more systems.

jf
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John Franklin
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