Doas keeps asking me for password

Question

I installed Doas as a replacement for sudo on my Gentoo machine. I followed the documentation here and my /etc/doas.conf looks like this:

permit persist :wheel

I have also restarted the system. However, it still asks me for the password every time I use doas. What am I doing wrong?

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score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '21 at 00:47

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You have to enable persist while you are compiling. Set persist use flag and it will work. If you have (persist) while you are compiling, you have to unmask the app-admin/doas first.

answered Feb 21 '21 at 00:47

DChaovII

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This is the solution for anyone wondering on Gentoo. – Balázs Börcsök Jan 02 '22 at 15:41
I'm using Debian, installed `doas` with apt, and I have not the slightest idea what I just read in this answer... – The Quantum Physicist Feb 18 '23 at 22:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '21 at 07:24

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Make below changes in the doas configuration.

permit nopass ::wheel

or allow user and dont require a password to execute commands as root

permit nopass keepenv :username2

Reference URL

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/doas-tips-sudo-alternative.69409/

answered Feb 05 '21 at 07:24

mahendra rathod

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I tried your suggestion and it didn't ask me for a password. However, I wonder why `persist` doesn't work. – Colson Xu Feb 07 '21 at 00:14
Check the config file and up like the answers – mahendra rathod Feb 07 '21 at 02:48
Is there a way I can make it ask for my password once and then keep me logged in for a while? In the documentation it says `persist` does the desired behavior but it does not work. – Colson Xu Feb 07 '21 at 04:59

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '21 at 01:45

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This works for me:

permit persist username as root

answered Feb 21 '21 at 01:45

jyand

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Doas keeps asking me for password

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