In bash under SL6 the terminal text turns red with the command

echo -en '\E[31m'

and turns back to black with "Reset" under "Terminal" or with

echo -en '\E[30m'

I don't know how it came to turn red unintentionally for you, but I'll bet 
this works under 7.5, too.

Steven Yellin

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> With the recent 7.5 security updates I'm now seeing red text on the console
> instead of white.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Is this expected?
>
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