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

Nick Bargnesi nbargnesi at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 00:54:30 UTC 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:48:50 -0800, Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:03:02PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > Should we implement a scheme to differentiate root/non-root bash
> > prompts by colour?
> 
> IIRC Gentoo does something like this. It might be worth looking at
> what they do. (I would go ahead and do that now, except that I don't
> happen to have Gentoo installed on any of my systems at the moment. And
> I think it's going to be at least another day or two before I have the
> time.)

The last time I saw a gentoo root prompt on a machine, the machine's
name or username was red.  Which has been discussed and seemingly
vetoed.

> 
> -Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>
> 
> 
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