bedrocklinux-userland VS OpenDoas

Back when I used a debian based distribution I made use of https://bedrocklinux.org/ to make use of the AUR. It's not for everyone though.

Now this is interesting... apparently it is possible to run Nix AKA "The Nix Package Manager" on Alpine -- despite the fact that Alpine is Busybox and Musl based and NixOS is Coreutils and Glibc based!

Well done Nix engineers and contributors!

(I may switch to Alpine w/Nix Package Manager in the future, depending on how well it works!)

Related:

Bedrock Linux: https://bedrocklinux.org/

Sure, just install Bedrock Linux and add the Arch stratum on top

There's a Bedrock Linux distro already...

Bedrock Linux. It is allows you to make a system out of various seemingly-incompatible parts of other distros. I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, but it's really cool.

If you want to actually use multiple distributions at once integrated tightly into each other (like using Ubuntu with AUR packages) I highly recommend https://bedrocklinux.org/. It uses some chroot and symbolic link magic to share files across filesystems.

Aditionally,because doas was developed for OpenBSD,it also retains some of its quirks,like how user-installed executables are stored in /usr/local/bin,in contrast to /usr/bin where Linux stores them. As a result,doas can have problems on Linux so the following workaround can be used:

https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106

That's a pretty severe unsolved security issue.

2. https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/blob/master/timestamp.c

If you want to move away from Sudo, but don't want to try this rust implementation just yet, I have had great success with OpenBSD's doas. It has been ported to every Linux distro I know of as well:

https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas

There are, at both ends. Both the "script kiddies" who cannot deviate from scripts because they lack almost any knowledge at all; and the knowledgeable ones who know that there are subtle differences between sudo and doas which require doing things slightly differently to achieve the same effect.

* https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/116#issuecomment-...

Doas makes more in openbsd world In linux there are many api that need to be changed for porting, i'm no expert but the port might be flawed as not many developers has checked the codebase And how can you explain this vulnerability https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106

Personally I'd prefer running Qubes OS, if only my device would have been more powerful. Currently I'm on Fedora Silverblue as I believe it provides a decent middle-ground in which I'm more secure than almost any other Linux distro while not losing any (meaningful) functionality. I do make use of doas and other technologies inspired from OpenBSD to further enhance the security.

Why not port https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas to rust instead?

If the goal is security, then there is more to it than just using a memory safe language. Otherwise the result of this, possibly unwittingly, seems performative.