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In this article, I am gonna show how to change the username and hostname color in Kali Linux 2020.1, because in new Kali Linux by default standers username and hostname in the terminal is colored form but if we login in root account both root and hostname change in a simple color, so how to change it I will explain here how to make root user terminal colorful in Kali Linux.
Make root User Terminal colorful in Kali Linux
First of all, you have to login as a root user in Kali Linux. You have to set the root password in then you can login in as root in Kali Linux. If you don’t know how to do this please go to this article where I show how to set the root password and how to log in as root.
Video:- How To Get root Access
How To Get root Access && root Account Login into Kali Linux 2020.1
Login as root
Open root terminal
When you open the terminal, terminal “root@kali:~#” with simple white color.
Check the difference between default user
Now you can switch the user to check the difference between both of them, using su <username>. Here you have to check the difference between default users is with color and root users not.
Open the .bashrc file
Open the .bashrc file , Here we have to open the both users .bashrc file to make change
#gedit ~/.bashrc command for root's .bashrc file #gedit /hoem/username/.bashrc for default user's .bashrc file
Copy the .bashrc file
Now final and important step is we have to copy the default user’s .bashrc file text to root’s .bashrc file and save the root’s .bashrc file.
default user’s .bashrc file demo
The following code lines are default user’s .bashrc file code.
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return;;
esac
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
#[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
#alias grep='grep --color=auto'
#alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
#alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# some more ls aliases
#alias ll='ls -l'
#alias la='ls -A'
#alias l='ls -CF'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
fiOpen the root terminal
Now close all the terminal and open the terminal and you will see colorful terminal same like default one.
Change the color
You can change the default color also doing some change. There is some ANSI color code which is showing below you can set according to yours. Default code is
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ 'ANSI color codes:
# Reset Color_Off="\[\033[0m\]" # Text Reset # Regular Colors Black="\[\033[0;30m\]" # Black Red="\[\033[0;31m\]" # Red Green="\[\033[0;32m\]" # Green Yellow="\[\033[0;33m\]" # Yellow Blue="\[\033[0;34m\]" # Blue Purple="\[\033[0;35m\]" # Purple Cyan="\[\033[0;36m\]" # Cyan White="\[\033[0;37m\]" # White # Bold BBlack="\[\033[1;30m\]" # Black BRed="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Red BGreen="\[\033[1;32m\]" # Green BYellow="\[\033[1;33m\]" # Yellow BBlue="\[\033[1;34m\]" # Blue BPurple="\[\033[1;35m\]" # Purple BCyan="\[\033[1;36m\]" # Cyan BWhite="\[\033[1;37m\]" # White # Underline UBlack="\[\033[4;30m\]" # Black URed="\[\033[4;31m\]" # Red UGreen="\[\033[4;32m\]" # Green UYellow="\[\033[4;33m\]" # Yellow UBlue="\[\033[4;34m\]" # Blue UPurple="\[\033[4;35m\]" # Purple UCyan="\[\033[4;36m\]" # Cyan UWhite="\[\033[4;37m\]" # White # Background On_Black="\[\033[40m\]" # Black On_Red="\[\033[41m\]" # Red On_Green="\[\033[42m\]" # Green On_Yellow="\[\033[43m\]" # Yellow On_Blue="\[\033[44m\]" # Blue On_Purple="\[\033[45m\]" # Purple On_Cyan="\[\033[46m\]" # Cyan On_White="\[\033[47m\]" # White # High Intensty IBlack="\[\033[0;90m\]" # Black IRed="\[\033[0;91m\]" # Red IGreen="\[\033[0;92m\]" # Green IYellow="\[\033[0;93m\]" # Yellow IBlue="\[\033[0;94m\]" # Blue IPurple="\[\033[0;95m\]" # Purple ICyan="\[\033[0;96m\]" # Cyan IWhite="\[\033[0;97m\]" # White # Bold High Intensty BIBlack="\[\033[1;90m\]" # Black BIRed="\[\033[1;91m\]" # Red BIGreen="\[\033[1;92m\]" # Green BIYellow="\[\033[1;93m\]" # Yellow BIBlue="\[\033[1;94m\]" # Blue BIPurple="\[\033[1;95m\]" # Purple BICyan="\[\033[1;96m\]" # Cyan BIWhite="\[\033[1;97m\]" # White # High Intensty backgrounds On_IBlack="\[\033[0;100m\]" # Black On_IRed="\[\033[0;101m\]" # Red On_IGreen="\[\033[0;102m\]" # Green On_IYellow="\[\033[0;103m\]" # Yellow On_IBlue="\[\033[0;104m\]" # Blue On_IPurple="\[\033[10;95m\]" # Purple On_ICyan="\[\033[0;106m\]" # Cyan On_IWhite="\[\033[0;107m\]" # White # Various variables you might want for your PS1 prompt instead Time12h="\T" Time12a="\@" PathShort="\w" PathFull="\W" NewLine="\n" Jobs="\j"
Change the code
f [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
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