Re: root customisations

[Sharad Joshi <sharadj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, u can do this to make your prompt colorful :) Put this in root's 
.bashrc file.

export PS1="^[[31;1mroot:^[[0m$"

This will make the prompt appear red. Pl. note that ^[ is the escape
character.

Sharad.

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, ATUL.G.MUNDRA wrote:

+ hi all.
+ 
+  is there any way i can customise the root login to look any different than
+ other users, such as having green colored text on black background or
+ anything else to just differentiate between users?
+ 
+ thanx in advance.
+ 
+ -amit


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