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> In-Reply-To: <58C6BDC0.7070307@omnilan.de> References: <58C6BDC0.7070307@omnilan.de>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Phil Eaton
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