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| 1 | doas is a port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux and | | 1 | doas is a port of OpenBSD's doas. |
| 2 | NetBSD. | | | |
| 3 | | | 2 | |
| 4 | The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which | | 3 | The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which |
| 5 | allows a user to run a command as though they were another | | 4 | allows a user to run a command as though they were another |
| 6 | user. Typically doas is used to allow non-privleged users to run | | 5 | user. Typically doas is used to allow non-privileged users to run |
| 7 | commands as though they were the root user. The doas program acts as | | 6 | commands as though they were the root user. The doas program acts as |
| 8 | an alternative to sudo, which is a popular method in the Linux | | 7 | an alternative to sudo, which is a popular method in the Linux |
| 9 | community for granting admin access to specific users. | | 8 | community for granting admin access to specific users. |
| 10 | | | 9 | |
| 11 | The doas program offers two benefits over sudo: its configuration file | | 10 | The doas program offers two benefits over sudo: its configuration file |
| 12 | has a simple syntax and it is smaller, requiring less effort to audit | | 11 | has a simple syntax and it is smaller, requiring less effort to audit |
| 13 | the code. This makes it harder for both admins and coders to make | | 12 | the code. This makes it harder for both admins and coders to make |
| 14 | mistakes that potentially open security holes in the system. | | 13 | mistakes that potentially open security holes in the system. |