How To Install opendoas on Fedora 34

opendoas is Portable fork of the OpenBSDs doas command

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opendoas on Fedora 34.

What is opendoas

doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.

We can use yum or dnf to install opendoas on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install opendoas.

Install opendoas on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install opendoas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install opendoas

Install opendoas on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install opendoas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opendoas

How To Uninstall opendoas on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the opendoas package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove opendoas

opendoas Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/doas.conf
/etc/pam.d/doas
/usr/bin/doas
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/01ab5127876c74cef6a7b57a3f870c116c5dbb
/usr/share/doc/opendoas
/usr/share/doc/opendoas/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/opendoas
/usr/share/licenses/opendoas/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/doas.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/doas.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install opendoas on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.