set up a root password

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Nils Kassube wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> >It will give you a white prompt with red background independent of the
>> > way you get a root shell.
>>
>> That looks as if it should work nicely.  One other question?  I'm in a
>> root shell, and I want to build the latest amanda snapshot, so I "su
>> amanada;cd" which puts me in ~/amanda where I build these.  Will it
>
>                               ^^^^^^^^ I suppose you mean "/home/amanda".
>
>> keep that background I have while I'm running as amanda, in this same
>> shell?  It seems like it would, but ATM I haven't checked.
>
>No, it will only use that colour prompt for root. But you could modify the
>colours to identify individual users. Use the command
>
>PS1='\[\033[01m\033[41m\033[37m\]\h: \w/ #\[\033[m\] '
>
>on a command line and modify the numbers 41 and 37 in that string to find
>out what colour combinations you like. Here is an excerpt from the
>file /etc/DIR_COLORS from an old SUSE distribution, that's where I found
>the colour numbers.
>
># Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
># string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
># Attribute codes:
># 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
># Text color codes:
># 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
># Background color codes:
># 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
>
>Then put the command with the colour combination you like in the file
>~/.bashrc of the user in question before the line which makes the colour
>prompt for root.
>
>
Neat, thanks Nils.

>Nils



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