Re: doas and */sbin/* commands

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 04:28:00PM -0500, TR Kellers, Sr wrote:

> >   2+0 ~$ doas printenv
> >  DOAS_USER=itz
> >  HOME=/root
> >  LOGNAME=root
> >  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> >  SHELL=/bin/sh
> >  TERM=alacritty
> >  USER=root
> >   3+0 ~$ doas which service
> >  /usr/sbin/service
> >   4+0 ~$ doas service
> >  doas: service: command not found

> Mine shows this, what does your doas.conf contain?

> timothyk@nexttroll:~ % doas printenv
> DOAS_USER=timothyk
> HOME=/root
> LOGNAME=root
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> TERM=xterm-256color
> USER=root
> timothyk@nexttroll:~ % doas which service 
> /usr/sbin/service
> timothyk@nexttroll:~ % doas service

> Usage:
> service [-j <jail name or id>] -e
> service [-j <jail name or id>] [-q] -R
> service [-j <jail name or id>] [-v] -l
> service [-j <jail name or id>] [-v] -r
> service [-j <jail name or id>] [-dqv] [-E var=value] <rc.d script> start|stop|etc.
> service -h

My doas.conf is, in full:

  permit nopasswd :wheel

but I don't see how that is relevant?

One difference I see is my unprivileged shell is bash and yours seems
to be tcsh.  But even that, how should it matter? Once doas is in
control, everything ought to be the same or it's a bug :-P

-- 
Ian