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A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-10-27 · latest 2025-05-07

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  1. …Linux have (the same) unfixed security issue: - https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106 - https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/110 I have a hard time recommending doas over sudo on Linux when the issue has been fixed in sudo but…
    comment by spyc · 2025-05-07 · in Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
  2. …and suchlike. There are, moreover, 2 ports of doas to other systems. OpenDOAS is one. Jesse Smith's https://github.com/slicer69/doas is the other. The latter retains the OpenBSD-specific code, and is the more portable of the two at the…
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-08-30 · in Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
  3. …(Linux) and https://github.com/ibara/oksh (cross-platform). There are also at least two of doas, https://github.com/slicer69/doas and https://github.com/nholstein/OpenDoas . I wish they were catalogued somewhere, like an "awesome list". I…
    comment by networked · 2023-08-27 · in Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
  4. There's also a straight port of doas: https://github.com/slicer69/doas/ However unlike sudo and opendoas this does not implement the persist feature on not-OpenBSD.
    comment by inferiorhuman · 2023-06-28 · in Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
  5. …operating systems removed and mechanisms copied in from sudo for things like timeout flag files. * https://github.com/slicer69/doas * https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-06-16 · in Doas Mastery (2016)
  6. …no-one here is saying not to use su to add privileges. People blame su, sudo, and (as the person at https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/110 did) doas for this feature of operating system kernels. The right thing to do with TIOCSTI it…
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-05-26 · in Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (2015)
  7. …But time and again stuff like this languishes in the wrong place, for years and decades. * https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/17
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-05-19 · in Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd
  8. …excuses saying a clear buffer overflow very similar to the one found in sudo is just "potential": - https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/261c2164496dbebe6e3e... - https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/2f83222829448e5bc4c9... I even…
    comment by duncaen · 2021-01-27 · in Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo
  9. …someone developed an official tool like doas for Linux. [0] https://github.com/multiplexd/doas [1] https://github.com/slicer69/doas
    comment by gilgamesh3 · 2019-10-27 · in Sudo vulnerability
  10. …UNIX-like systems, though I don't know how good the port is. [0] https://man.openbsd.org/doas [1] https://github.com/slicer69/doas
    comment by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u · 2019-10-27 · in Sudo vulnerability