If you use mc (midnight commander) for a while, you may get sick of not knowing if you're running it as root or not. I recall way back in the day when I used redhat (several years ago), it was setup so that the color scheme of root was red. I googled around for a while and couldn't find anything except rpms. RPMs are for wusses and lesser wimps. So I extracted this from the rpm.

You can add this to the end of /root/.mc/ini

want to create your own custom scheme? use this syntax to modify the colors.

Enjoy.

[Colors]
base_color=normal=lightgrey,red:input=white,brown:errors=white,brightred:gauge=brown,black:selected=black,white:marked=yellow,red:markselect=yellow,white:directory=white,red:executable=brightgreen,red:link=lightgray,red:device=brightmagenta,red:special=brightmagenta,red:core=brightred,red:menu=black,white:menuhot=yellow,white:menuhotsel=brightred,black:dnormal=black,white:dfocus=white,lightgray:dhotnormal=yellow,white:dhotfocus=brightred,lightgray:editnormal=lightgray,black:editmarked=yellow,white