Am 28.03.2012 22:20, schrieb Mark Haney:
The only real issue there is I'm usually running multiple
consoles and I don't always pay enough attention to keep
track of which console is running root. If I use sudo I know that I can't do
anything stupid in a console that
will trash the system. I may blow up my own crap, but that's why we have backups.
And that's why sudo is much
safer to use than logging in as root, at least from the command line.
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]$\[\033[0m\] "
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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 :-)