On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:22:03PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Maybe you misunderstood my example shell prompt code. Or maybe I'm just not > understanding what you're saying. Here, copy/pasted from a Putty terminal > session. Not a doc-file, but demonstrates your example nonetheless. > > [11:14:14][s...@greer]/etc/postfix$ > [11:16:09][r...@greer]/etc/postfix$ > > There. No color. Root does has a different prompt. The prompt says "root" > instead of "user". What about your concern am I missing?
I think the point is that it's a lot easier to overlook "root" buried somewhere in the middle of a long prompt than it is to overlook a "#" right next to the cursor. Cheers, Tom -- Real Users never use the Help key.
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