Contributed by nayden on from the not MWL dept.
Ted Unangst (tedu@) has written an item regarding doas:
It’s been a year since the introduction of doas, so it’s clearly time to write a book. Or maybe a pamphlet.
See his flak entry for the full story (and bear in mind he's referring to -current at the time of writing).
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By Anonymous Coward (82.68.199.130) on
Has anyone figured out a way to use this with the ports infrastructure without having doas ask for a password for every operation requiring privs?
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By journeysquid (Tor) on http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
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> Has anyone figured out a way to use this with the ports infrastructure without having doas ask for a password for every operation requiring privs?
Reading the docs is a good start.
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsConfig
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By sthen (2a02:8011:7003:3:4f5:595e:6541:42bf) on
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> > Has anyone figured out a way to use this with the ports infrastructure without having doas ask for a password for every operation requiring privs?
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> Reading the docs is a good start.
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> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsConfig
If you're not going to read the question asked, what's the point in making a useless RTFM post?
> Re: Ted Unangst on (mod -7/65)
That's just nuts.
By Anonymous Coward (24.34.223.45) on
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> Has anyone figured out a way to use this with the ports infrastructure without having doas ask for a password for every operation requiring privs?
Also regarding "persist" is it possible to specify the amount of time that can pass before the password is required again? The man page for current says "After the user successfully authenticates, do not ask for a password again for some time." but does not note that time to be 5 minutes as the Tedu blog notes.
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By rjc (rjc) on
https://marc.info/?m=147314077009745
By Anonymous Coward (119.247.89.48) on
Thanks.
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By Anonymous Coward (2a02:8109:43f:9e14:b227:c3ff:fe7d:9e20) on
No.
By Anonymous Coward (2601:186:4400:2045:f927:6177:6b29:b9b8) on
Kudos to Mr Unangst. Learning doas was a cakewalk, the doas.conf syntax was intuitive and the man page was excellent.
It was so good to see sudo in the rear-view mirror, that I download the doas pkg on my FreeBSD servers and I'm converting them as well.
Thanks!
By Anonymous Coward (217.170.201.106) on
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By Anonymous Coward (87.15.118.219) on
If you use voidlinux (and possibly other distros), it's called "opendoas", but
WARNING WARNING WARNING the portable version for linux DOES NOT EXIST (yet?), that's an unofficial port