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by throwaway984393 1665 days ago
On the one hand, I get that not everybody needs all the features of sudo, but on the other.... Sudo is way more useful than doas. If you really go through all its functionality, you start using it in ways you didn't think to before.

You can have a custom AuthZ solution and automatically inherit sudo permissions based on groups. It supports a configurable askpass. You can background jobs, change working directory, selectively pass or set environment variables, set $HOME, use a login shell, preserve origin groups, use a chroot, read a password from STDIN, override the shell, set a timeout. And of course the sudoedit features.

I know we all like programs that "do one thing well", but sometimes the best way to support all the use cases we want is a big honking program.