rooting in colour

[jenolan]

If you are like me and use ssh quite a bit you may have more than one window open. Not a huge problem unless one is root, then you can do pretty ugly things by 'accident'.

What I do is make the command prompt display my root login path in red like this;

root@example [/home/mysite/www/help]#

So in your /root/.bashrc at the bottom add

export PS1='\u@\h [\[\e[31;1m\]\w\[\e[0m\]]# '

and you can root in colour too!

Larry

[chaloupe]

Thanks for sharing! The color red to my eye make it like it's a new program. Any change is good when you get bored of black, white and blue.

I tried a few different colors in putty > Configuration > Window > Colours (isn't this misspelled?) but it's refreshing to root as red.

useful for me

I'm currently using this for my personal server.

However its really useless unless you have root access to the machine, but it does however have a fancy pwd pruning script that makes your prompt nice and neat.

Works best in /etc/bashrc