How Can You Tell If You Are Logged In As Root?

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Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:49 am - How Can You Tell If You Are Logged In As Root?

#2236

there is a simple way you can find out whether or not you are logged in as root.

once logged in to a command-line termina, you'll receive a prompt into which you can enter commands. if you log is as the root user, a # prompt will be shown:

[root@localhost]#

but if you are not logged in as root and instead as a regular user, you will see the $ prompt instead

[root@localhost]$

hope this helps

author: Webune

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Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:21 pm - Re: How Can You Tell If You Are Logged In As Root?

#2310

coddy

Actualy there is an easyer way to tell on linux. If
you are loged in as root your "[rootat localhost]#"
will be green instead of red. And yes that hapens to.
:)

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