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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:00:45
Message-Id: ohhfk8$mbj$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user? by "Toralf Förster"
1 On 06/10/2017 09:24 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
2 > On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>
5 >> I'm not seeing it :-P
6 >
7 > Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name)
8 > a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line.
9
10 It's in red, has the "username@" missing, and has a "#" prefix instead
11 of an "$". That's a very good indication already that it's a root shell.