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Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 | and status update on rust coreutils and rust PGP
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A way smaller alternative therefore less prompt to vulnerabilities is OpenDoas found on Arch/Artix/... and other distros. From the GH project:
Tried it but it is not a 100% compatible as sudo replacment as it lacks some of the args. This means that some programs fail as they attempt to use incorrect args.
I'm curious about which programs if you can share. I write few bash scripts which used to call sudo, and I replace sudo with doas in those. And in case of muscular memory I also added a bash alias so that if by mistake calling sudo in reality I'd be calling doas. So far no issues. O course I don't use fancy args, and what I really needed from sudo I used to include it in
/etc/sudoersand now on/etc/doas.conf, and I believe I couldn't include a couple of options but they were not critical since I've lived without them so far. And it's weird to find actual software that requires sudo, perhaps proprietary software. One can actually live without sudo and without doas, as long as there's stillsu.Not judging, rather curious, actually I've met several guys who write scripts which would benefit from using sudo/doas, but they claim better call the scripts through sudo/doas rather than adding them as dependencies.
I don't remember what it was exactly, I encountered two times where doas failed as a sudo replacement. After that I went back to sudo