Doas - a sudo substitute

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Doas - a sudo substitute

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Maybe a tool to make using puppy instead of root less painful and at least turn off having to type your password.

Configuring it seems more straight forward than sudo and less tied in with everything else.

https://wiki.debian.org/Doas

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Re: Doas - a sudo substitute

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Readers might be also interested in the alternative to sudo, "sudo-sh", implemented in EasyOS:

"Light-weight replacement for sudo"
https://bkhome.org/news/202306/light-we ... -sudo.html

"Workaround when setuid is ignored"
https://bkhome.org/news/202306/workarou ... nored.html

/usr/bin/sudo.sh:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/blob/m ... in/sudo.sh

sudo-sh binary executable source:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/sourc ... betical/s/

Compile recipe for sudo-sh:
https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirks ... -sh_1.2.bb

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Re: Doas - a sudo substitute

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The "tick if no password is required in the future" is ideal and will seem natural to people coming from Android.

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Re: Doas - a sudo substitute

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meanwhile, windows 12 works towards emulating Ubuntu
https://github.com/microsoft/sudo

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Re: Doas - a sudo substitute

Post by tosim »

Y'all can also look into "nala".Like apt enhanced the user experience from apt-get, nala takes it to the next level
by making it more human-readable and presenting only the relevant info with beautiful colors.
Actually, Nala does a lot more than just adding colors to the terminal.

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