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