What is the fundamental difference between sudo and doas ?

10 hours ago by TheViking to c/nostupidquestions

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Forester 6 points 10 hours ago

Sudo runs a temp shell as root. Doas runs the temp shell with whatever user you specified defaults to root w no arguments. Personally I just su to the user then run the command as the user natively in the users shell, makes it way easier to see what you did in the history and logs

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TheViking 4 points 9 hours ago

Could you please make that eli5 ??

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SlicedPotato 5 points 9 hours ago

Sudo: Always uses the root user to get access to run a command, no matter which user you want to run the command as. Doas: Uses the user you want to run the command as to actually get access to run the command.

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Shimitar 7 points 9 hours ago

Sudo -u otheruser do still go trough root?

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corsicanguppy 1 point 3 hours ago

Nah. The guy's either confusing sudo -u and sudo su - or confusing "has suid so it can switch users" with "always goes through root". Because it doesn't "go through" root like sudo su does.

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Shimitar 1 point 20 minutes ago

This make much more sense....

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