On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:42:03 -0500, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@machine root]# Might look obtrusive but it gets the point across to the color blind administrators and feature-less terminals. > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Nick Bargnesi http://www.den-4.com Den 4 Software pub 1024D/E8BD2FD0 2004-12-02 Nick Bargnesi <nbargnesi@xxxxxxxxx> Key fingerprint = 6F9D 9404 63CD 2B04 DE7A 0F9D A1ED C1B0 E8BD 2FD0 sub 2048g/56C5D45B 2004-12-02
