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

[Richard June]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:07, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:03:02PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139628
> >
> > Should we implement a scheme to differentiate root/non-root bash
> > prompts by colour?
>
> As proposed no. It makes the prompt the same in all cases for colourblind
> users. A combination might work but you would to implemnent some fairly
> fancy logic topic to dynamically adjust the colour scheme based on the
> background and foreground colour of the display, as well as avoiding red on
> mono monitors.
>
> Alan
Wow, that's ugly for both users and root.
why not set root's foreground to blink?

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