Changing the color of your linux prompt is a quite easy thing. Different prompt colors may be useful to distinguish different machines more easy, or just for fun.


export PS1='\e[0;32m\u\e[0;32m@\h:\e[0;0m\w\e[0;0m$\e[0m '


Just put the lines above in your /etc/profile and in the ~/.bashrc

The color codecs are:

GRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
LIGHT_CYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
NO_COLOUR="\[\033[0m\]"
BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
LIGHT_BLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
PURPLE="\[\033[0;35m\]"
LIGHT_PURPLE="\[\033[1;35m\]"
BROWN="\[\033[0;33m\]"
YELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]"
BLACK="\[\033[0;30m\]"
WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"