Terminal not launching with different config files

[Richard Kenyon]

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:43 +0200, houghi wrote:
> As I do a lot of editing and playing around with the system, having one
> specific for root makes me make less errors then doing su each time and
> is less cumbersome then doing sudo each time. Yes, I am fully aware of the
> dangers of having a terminal with root and that is why I want it to be
> clear that that ones IS root.

Why don't you just use sudo?

That would seem like the best (and simplest) solution to me.