Is it me or is it sudo?

[Mark Haney]

On 03/28/2012 04:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

> the promt in linux supports colors since long ago
> which is smarter than guess by error messages that
> it was a root command happily with not enough
> permissions
>
> /root/.basrhc (red prompt):
> PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
>
> ~/.bashrc (green prompt)
> PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
> ______________________________
>
> i use the follwoing schema since many years
>
> RED:       root on production servers
> ORANGE:    root on my machines
> YELOW:     root on backup.machines
> GREEN:     my user
> LIGHTBLUE: buildusers
> DARKBLUE:  vm hosts
>
> no, i have no good documentation, i googled around
> for colors i searched :-)

I'm aware of BASH's use of colors, but, I'm not always at a console that 
displays colors.  (I've not found an Android app that will display them 
on my Galaxy Tab for instance.)

Besides, I think a healthy dose of paranoia is not a bad thing. If it 
works for you, that's great. I've found that it's not always good to 
rely on things like that if you have to access consoles from odd devices 
like mobile phones.



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Mark Haney
Software Developer/Consultant
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markh at abemblem.com
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