On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I expected that > > doas id -ru > > would return my uid. > > But it returns 0 (ie root) > > Can anybody comment on it? > Hmm, what led you to expect it to return your UID? doas, like su, sets both the effective and real UID to the target user's; running something with doas is not the same as making it setuid and running it. Running with effective!=real can trip up programs that didn't expect it, so it not a safe choice for something like doas. Philip Guenther
