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Why not just use doas(1) instead?

doas(1)

- doas(1) - portable version has about 500 lines of code

- doas(1) man pages - 157 lines long

- doas(1) had 2 CVEs

sudo(8)

- sudo(8) - about 120,000 lines of code (100x more)

- sudo(8) man pages - 10 000 lines long

- sudo(8) had 140 CVEs

The CVEs comparison is from 'all time' and as sudo(8) has longer history then doas(1) - it will (at least statistically) have more of these ... I expect doas(1) to have about 5-10 CVEs when they would have the same life span.

Regards,

vermaden

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