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Sudo and doas are 1000x (in loc) more complex than they need to be for destop pc. Yet they are always default installed and some tools even expect them.
edit: didn't know that doas is that small. I thought it has ~1/10 of sudo's code but it's actually ~2k vs. 132k of sudo.
doasis relativly simple (a few hundred LOC), especially compared tosudo. The main benefit ofrun0overdoasis that it isn't a SUID binary, they are similary complex.Actually it's close to 2k lines of code (1,946 to be exact). But yes, it's certainly a lot simpler than sudo (132k).