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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://github.com/slicer69/doas">https://github.com/slicer69/doas</a></p><br /><p>Installing is very simple, </p><p>in the folder with your zip or tarrred folder of: <a href="https://github.com/slicer69/doas/archive/6.2p4.zip">https://github.com/slicer69/doas/archive/6.2p4.zip</a></p><p>type in bash,<br /><strong><br />./configure,</strong></p><p><strong>make </strong></p><p><strong>sudo make install (ironic)</strong></p><p>and it works well once you do, sudo nano /usr/local/etc/doas.conf and add&nbsp; </p><p> permit your_user as wheel </p><p>to the config, whatever your username is...</p><p>Here is an example how to use it on linux systems,</p><p>doas -- pacman -Syu</p><p>The -- are needed after doas to make it function. <br /><strong><br />Also if your a creature of habit, using doas instead of sudo will seem odd at first. I just discovered this gem today, and it is under a libre license. permissive, but libre. <img src="https://forums.hyperbola.info/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></strong></p><p>You can also use, this: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/doas">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/doas</a></p><p>I prefer source usually though over arch.</p><p>But anyways if any user wants to make a pkgbuild of this and add it to the hyperbola repo, that would be lovely. </p><p>It is easy to install though. </p><p><strong>But there is a caveat,&nbsp; everytime you make a command, you must type your password in.&nbsp; Unlike sudo where its once till you close terminal or for three minutes, etc... <img src="https://forums.hyperbola.info/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></strong></p><p><strong>By the way, if you use makepkg -i </strong></p><p><strong>when installing the aur version of doas,</strong></p><p><strong>in the folder you have with the aur doas pkgbuild, I am not certain, but it may be more efficent at getting some of this done. </strong></p><p><strong>Take your choice, <img src="https://forums.hyperbola.info/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></strong></p>]]></content>
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