On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:53 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote: > Yet another option would just be to alter PS1 to display something like: > > -- WARNING - LOGGED IN AS ROOT -- > [root@machine root]# I like modifying PS1 to include this warning. It's simple and effective. At least one person has expressed disgust at the idea of a multi-line PS1, but it isn't hard to remove after installation. Of course, I may not be one to speak as my PS1 is five lines tall. Just want to re-inforce a point already made by Nick: > export PS1="\n-- WARNING - Use your head. You're root. --\n[\u@\h \W]$ " I've found that with multi-line prompts, including a blank line at the start makes them much easier to read. Although that does push root's PS1 from a moderate 2 lines to a slightly extreme three... -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Guru Labs, L.C.
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