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.
From the linked mastodon thread:
> For example, by default it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges. That is supposed to act as a friendly reminder that you haven't given up the privileges yet, and marks the output of all commands that ran with privileges appropriately. (If you don't like this, you can easily turn it off via the --background= switch).
(emphasis mine)
`alias grep='grep --color=auto'`
`alias ls='ls --color=auto'`
It's canon.