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Use this tag with questions regarding the use or configuration of the doas utility, used for executing a command or shell as another user.

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I'm using doas for privilege escalation together with a command-line program that calls into either sudo or doas (OpenDoas on Linux, this program does not support BSDs) for authentication when it ...
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My host is on alpine Linux and I'm running a jenkins agent on docker. I need the jenkins agent to be able to run a script when it does a build that changes the ownership of a few directories. Every ...
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I have installed a Nix package on my ubuntu os, that depends on doas, and for it to function, it's binary need's to have the suid bit set - and it isn't in the default nix-env installation. On NixOS ...
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Is there a common way I can show a banner when a user sudo -s or doas -s on a host? I don't mean ssh/login banner, but starting a root shell via those methods.
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doas is a sudo-like command recently packaged in Debian 12, Ubuntu Jammy (universe) and some other Linux distros. A non sudoers user (doasuser) can be added to /etc/doas.conf to be granted root access....
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I wrote a simple playbook, open-links.yml, that is meant to run a script on one of my remote hosts: - name: Run Bash script hosts: myhosts gather_facts: false vars: au: "j" tasks:...
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I want to run a command in the background as root. And I have a problem with doas command. With sudo, I can use sudo --background <command>. It will ask for password, then runs in the background....
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This script works when executed with doas ./backup_cron_root.sh #!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/crontab -l> "/tmp/cron.$(whoami).$(hostname)" && /bin/date>>"/tmp/cron.$(...
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sudo wget -qO- https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz|sudo tar -xz works fine. doas wget -qO- https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz|doas tar -xz does not work. I get no input, it just ...
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On OpenBSD 7.2 stable, I've setup my chroot using this script: #!/bin/ksh dir="/jails/$1" mkdir -p "$dir" tar -C "$dir" -xzf /usr/src/base/base72.tgz tar -C "$dir&...
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I want to configure doas so that it asks for root password, but not for normal user password. How do I do that?
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I'm using Debian/GNU/Linux Unstable, and I was trying doas for the first time today, with the following simple config file: $ doas cat /etc/doas.conf permit persist alx as root While it worked for ...
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From my limited understanding, the doas utility allows you to run any command as root but, by default, requires you to enter your own password instead of the root user's password. How do I make it ...
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This is a question I've pondered for a long time and thought was impossible. Is it possible to prevent administrators of a machine from bypassing the audit capabilities of sudo or doas? For instance, ...
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How may I change my doas prompt? For example, to change sudo prompt you just run export SUDO_PROMPT="Prompt: " Is there an equivalent for doas?
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