syntax error and doas.conf

Hi all,

just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python
scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf
file you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :(

consider a a case where your root has no pw, you are the guy in the
wheel group and of course you have only this line

permit persist keepenv :wheel

so far everything is peachy ok we are going to add a new line

permit nopass foo as root cmt /root/scripts/dosomething

and we save it ... ups we did a mistake an like to fix it, no worries we
can ... or cant we?

doas vi /etc/doas.conf

doas: syntax error at line 15


at this point you are a bit screwed because you cant edit the doas.conf
you cant reboot you only way seems to be a switch off. Ok maybe there
other was but hey I'm no pro Im a simple user and its a vm so switch it
off. Boot in single user mode, make a fsck because , mount the
patritions, export the TERM var so yu get a vi. Well seems we are back
in business but no we cant edit /etc/doas.conf. Doesnt matter we came so
far we simply copy the exmaple to /etc and be done with it. At that
point 5 to 10 min of your life is wasted with silly stuff but you may
have learn at least one thing ... read again what you just wrote before
you save it :)


Have a nice day list :) and happy helloween

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