However...
> [...] by default it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges
?!! ouch ... seems orthogonal to the actual important parts.
Disclaimer: I didn't try it.
I like the intent behind it, but some terminals already tint the header color when running sudo, I haven't tested if its done specifically for sudo or if its in a more generic way that could handle this as well.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they only do this if $TERM supports color. But still. That $TERM variable can surprise a poor programmer in all sorts of ways.
This feels like much ado about nothing.
Edit: Also don’t forget the “with great power comes great responsibility” blurb that sudo likes to output. I know that doesn’t happen in scripts when output is redirected, but I’m sure run0 will figure that out too.
The contextual blurb does have a way of disabling it in a persistent config, which is easy enough to set. It also goes to stderr and not stdout and does nothing to alter the output of the command itself.
It also does not show if you have NOPASSWD: set in your sudoers. So even less surprising.
You can turn this off for certain users and/or programs.