Re: doas 101 question
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 08:32:14PM -0800, David Robert Newman wrote:
> I asked doas author Ted Unangst about this. His reply:
>
> > Sorry, only very limited env replacement can be done in setenv. root's environment isn't available before the switch.
>
> Ergo, it is just as you suspected. This isn't an issue with OpenBSD because
> regular users's PATHs already include sbin directories. It is an issue with
> Debian because (a) a regular user's PATH doesn't include sbin directories
> and (b) the change in su behavior awhile back restricted access to some root
> privileges. It's not an issue with sudo, but for various reasons I'm more
> comfortable using doas.
>
> My workaround was to add aliases for a few commands to my .bashrc file, e.g.
> (but not a real example):
>
> alias ua='doas /usr/sbin/useradd'
In order to use doas, you already have to customize your system (it
does nothing out-of-the-box).
You might as well take another step, and customize your login so that
your PATH contains /usr/local/sbin and so on. The details of how to do
this are extremely specific to how you login, but it should be pretty
simple if you know what you're doing.
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