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doas is a small replacement for sudo
2024-09-20
Over the last few years, I have transitioned a lot of my stuff over to using doas instead of sudo on my GNU/Linux machines and servers. doas is a utility from the OpenBSD world.
doas is super easy to setup. I'm running on Debian 12, and installed it like so:
sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y opendoas
When it is installed, you can get up and running by getting your doas.conf file setup. Here's a few lines we can use to get it done:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# create /etc/doas.conf file
sudo touch /etc/doas.conf
# allow $USER to run root commands
echo "permit persist "${USER}" as root" | sudo tee /etc/doas.conf
Now, you should be good to go! Test doas by running a quick command with it:
doas echo "Hello from doas!"
If you were prompted for your password and saw the line printed, then doas is setup and good to go. You can now use it anywhere you would normally use sudo.
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