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

[Ronny Buchmann]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 17:54, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > FWIW, the only reason I change my prompt is so that when I have multiple
> > terminal sessions open, some root, some non-, I can more easily
> > distinguish between them.  I found that the # wasn't enough to catch my
> > eye.  It doesn't really serve as a warning to me that I'm in a root
> > session, it's more just an identifier.
>
> Well if we restrict the problem to modern gfx terminals, there are lots
> of possibilities :
> - background images
> - yellow notification bar à la firefox
> - etc, etc
How will this work with su?

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