• Forester@pawb.social
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    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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        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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          Sudo -u otheruser do still go trough root?

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            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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        Your question is perfectly valid btw. The answer you wanted as an eli5 was very poorly explained, using a lot of jargon and bad phrasing and formatting and typos here and there.

        I understand perfectly why you’d need a breakdown of what they said if you are new to this. Dont listen to people asking you to talk to an AI chat bot. Fuck AI and fuck rude people like that.

        Welcome to the Linux community! 🤗

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        Sudo find -f

        Super user do command find and look for all files in the current directory

        Makes a tempory separate session (shell) to run command as root user from the current working directory

        Doas find -f

        Super user do command find and look for all files in the current directory

        Makes a tempory separate session (shell) to run command as root user from the current working directory

        Doas bob find -f

        Do as Bob look for all files that can be accessed

        Makes a tempory separate session (shell) to run command as bobs user from the current working directory, will show any files that bobs group or user owns.