Arnt Karlsen <a...@iaksess.no> wrote: >> What a pity there isn't a visual indicator that you are weilding root >> authority like, I don't know, maybe the bash shell prompt ending >> character changing from "$" to "#". >> >> It could work. Somebody should try it, some time.
:D > ..I still miss and prefer the S.u.S.E.-5.2 way, root had a > nice red background color in xterms, fairly hard to miss. Back when I adminned a bunch of Macs serving individual services, I set the desktop to be a repeating tile of the application icon so it was clear which one I was connected to at any time. Many times over the years I suggested to my Windows admin colleagues that they should set the desktop to show which server it is - and so avoid the "oops I <did something> to the wrong one" incidents that happened from time to time - but they never listened. More recently, I've only really done CLI stuff and then the hostname is right there as part of the Bash prompt. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
