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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:48:26 -0400
From:      Phil Eaton <philneaton95@gmail.com>
To:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sudo alternatives; for the minimalists
Message-ID:  <CAByiw%2Bp0cM%2BO-wd8uoo0Kp8BNEiQvrrmQuK858ALAR9bTfJThA@mail.gmail.com>
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How do you feel about the security/doas port from OpenBSD?

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
wrote:

>  Dear list,
>
> after more than two decades of daily FreeBSD usage, I'm still astonished
> that almost everybody else seems to use 'sudo'.
> I don't use it because I don't agree with the idea to authorize with the
> user password which I already used for current credentials.
>
> But, I'd like to profit from cached credentials, like I experienced on
> MacOS.
>
> I agree with 'su root -c', which prompts for the SuperUser password to
> get SuperUser priviledges and I once stumbled across a sudo-alternative
> which does the same, but I don't remember it's name and it seems there
> are a lot of more or less similar sudo-replacements.  Unfortunately I
> haven't ever tried any of these and am always short in time.  Is there
> any similar credential caching alternative like MacOS has?
>
> I'd highly appreciate suggestions, especially from people sharing my
> sudo-objections.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -harry
>
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Phil Eaton



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