RFC: root/non-root bash prompts different colours?

[Nick Bargnesi]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:42:03 -0500, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:13:19PM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> > > Alan
> > Wow, that's ugly for both users and root.
> > why not set root's foreground to blink?
> 
> Not all terminal devices support blink 8)

Ever had too much coffee and tried staring at a blinking prompt?
Yet another option would just be to alter PS1 to display something like:

-- WARNING - LOGGED IN AS ROOT --
[root at machine root]#  

Might look obtrusive but it gets the point across to the color blind
administrators and feature-less terminals.


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