On Friday, 3 December 2021 13:30:29 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Friday, 3 December 2021 12:08:05 GMT tastytea wrote:
> > On 2021-12-03 11:17+0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to set the colour of a bash prompt according to
> > > whether the user has SSH'd in?
> > >
> > > This machine is a compile host for some others on the LAN, and it
> > > would be helpful if it were more obvious that I'm connected to
> > > another machine. Of course, the standard prompt tells me the machine
> > > name, but something more conspicuous would help.
> >
> > When you are connected via SSH, the environment variable
SSH_CONNECTION
> > is set. I store the color in a variable and set it to yellow if
> > `[[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]`. I can't give you the exact snippet
> > since I use Zsh, but it should be possible to use a variable as color
> > in bash's prompt?
> >
> > Kind regards, tastytea
>
> This link expands upon tastytea's idea:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/217270/change-ps1-color-when->
> connected-to-other-host-via-ssh
Thank you both. Now I just have to shoehorn it into /etc/bash/bashrc on the
SSH server...
--
Regards,
Peter.
