I've never used doas, I have only used sudo and I'm just curious if anyone could explain the differences and maybe why one would use doas over sudo? Or sudo over doas?
I've just never really thought about using anything besides sudo until now. :)
I've just never really thought about using anything besides sudo until now. :)
it has a way simpler config and way smaller source. it also may or may not be fully functional on linux at any given time as it likes to use openbsd kernel apis. for instance on linux by default you must supply a password every time you invoke doas, unlike sudo which provides a temporary session for the tty you authenticate against. doas supports such a session on openbsd, but relies on kernel timers, so by default that functionality is disabled in linux.
I wonder this because doas seems like it is superior but I rarely see how-to documentation (on Linux, at least) that uses anything aside from sudo (or just su) for privilege escalation.