#1126859 please consider shipping sudoers snippet to preserve GREP_COLOR

Package:
grep
Source:
grep
Description:
GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2026-02-02 19:19:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1126859#5
Date:
2026-02-02 19:13:15 UTC
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Hi,

Debian's default /etc/sudoers contains the following:

# Completely harmless preservation of a user preference.
#Defaults:%sudo env_keep += "GREP_COLOR"

Please consider shipping /etc/sudoers.d/grep_environment containing
those lines. If grep uses other environment variables that are harmless
to pass up to a process with elevated privileges, feel free to add those
as well. That would enable sudo to simplify its default configuration.

Greetings
Marc
#1126859#10
Date:
2026-02-02 19:17:07 UTC
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a better name would be grep_env_keep to align that better with the
option.

Greetings
Marc