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

[David Nielsen]

ons, 08 12 2004 kl. 12:53 -0500, skrev 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]#  

Blinking stuff on a screen is bad combined with certain illnesses like
some forms of epilepsy.

- David *Suffering from Tourette's and not being all to happy about the
blinking stuff either* Nielsen