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

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 23:42 +0100, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> If you have several terminals opened (some root, some user) you will easily 
> distinguish by $/#?

Yes. It's _right_ there in front of me; the last character of the
prompt. It would be hard to miss it.

> Have you never been in a hurry?

Of the _many_ stupid things I've done when I've been in a hurry, almost
all of them were done when I was root and I _knew_ it.

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dwmw2