NAME
doas —
execute commands as another
user
SYNOPSIS
doas |
[-Lns] [-a
style] [-C
config] [-u
user] command
[args] |
DESCRIPTION
The doas utility executes the given
command as another user. The command argument is
mandatory unless -C, -L, or
-s is specified.
The user will be required to authenticate by entering their password, unless configured otherwise.
By default, a new environment is created. The variables
HOME, LOGNAME,
PATH, SHELL, and
USER and the
umask(2) are set to values appropriate for the target user.
DOAS_USER is set to the name of the user executing
doas. The variables DISPLAY
and TERM are inherited from the current environment.
This behavior may be modified by the config file. The working directory is
not changed.
The options are as follows:
-astyle- Use the specified authentication style when validating the user, as allowed by /etc/login.conf. A list of doas-specific authentication methods may be configured by adding an ‘auth-doas’ entry in login.conf(5).
-Cconfig- Parse and check the configuration file config, then
exit. If command is supplied,
doaswill also perform command matching. In the latter case either ‘permit’, ‘permit nopass’ or ‘deny’ will be printed on standard output, depending on command matching results. No command is executed. -L- Clear any persisted authentications from previous invocations, then immediately exit. No command is executed.
-n- Non interactive mode, fail if the matching rule doesn't have the
nopassoption. -s- Execute the shell from
SHELLor /etc/passwd. -uuser- Execute the command as user. The default is root.
EXIT STATUS
The doas utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs. It may fail for one of the
following reasons:
- The config file /etc/doas.conf could not be parsed.
- The user attempted to run a command which is not permitted.
- The password was incorrect.
- The specified command was not found or is not executable.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The doas command first appeared in
OpenBSD 5.8.
AUTHORS
Ted Unangst <tedu@openbsd.org>