opendoas

Choose to run a program as another user

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS PACKAGE HAS NOT BEEN AUDITED BY THE SUSE SECURITY TEAM! Doas - "do" and "as". A program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user. Typically doas is used to allow non-privleged users to run commands as though they were the root user. The doas program acts as an alternative to sudo, which is a popular method in the Linux community for granting admin access to specific users. It can be used as an alternative to sudo.