Category: the admin adventures

Lately I have been working with my server a lot, and noticed that its Bash prompt is rather boring and with no color at all:

So I decided to change this and bring some color to my server! Also, I wanted to use different colors for ordinary users and root, so it is easy to see if I am currently in the danger zone (i.e. root).

This blog post demonstrates how to achieve predictable names for multiple identical USB-to-serial-converters.