Re: doas 101 question

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, David Newman wrote:

> Thanks for this. I get similar results where doas shows root's PATH -- but I 
> cannot execute a file called '/usr/local/sbin/s', which is owned by root:root 
> and has 0750 permissions, unless I specify the full path:
>
> dnewman@coppi:~$ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
> dnewman@coppi:~$ cat /etc/doas.conf
> permit nopass setenv { 
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin } dnewman
> dnewman@coppi:~$ doas env | grep PATH
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> dnewman@coppi:~$ doas s mailman3
> doas: s: command not found
> dnewman@coppi:~$ doas /usr/local/sbin/s mailman3
> ? mailman3.service - GNU Mailing List Manager
> ..
Do you have an alias for s?

tim@einstein(4):~$ l
/home/tim/bin/l says hello world
tim@einstein(4):~$ alias l='PATH=/bin l'
tim@einstein(4):~$ l
bash: l: command not found
tim@einstein(4):~$ /home/tim/bin/l
/home/tim/bin/l says hello world

The other thing I can think of is you need to run hash -r

(I don't know what doas is, I'm just making guesses)