Bonek Root User (boru)

Boru is a minimalist tool to run commands with elevated privileges. A simple alternative to Sudo and OpenDoas.

Manual Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/zKBTuran/boru | (or download the boru.tar file from here)
$ cd boru
# make
# make install

After that, you are basically done. If it doesn't work, you might have to change the configuration file. Which is in /etc/boru.conf, and set the group variable to the admin group you are in. If you don't know which group is it, you can check out /etc/group.

Manual Uninstallation

# make uninstall

Usage

$ boru [command]

Configuration

This is the default configuration for boru:

group=wheel
wrong_pw_sleep=1000
session_ttl=5
nopass=0

Here is the meaning of these variables:

group: The group of users that is allowed to execute boru.

wrong_pw_sleep: The amount of milliseconds to sleep at a wrong password attempt. Must be a positive integer. Set to 0 to disable.

session_ttl: The amount of minutes a session lasts. Must be a positive integer. Set to 0 to disable.

nopass: Sets whether the boru will ask for password or not. Set to 0 to enable. ⚠️❗ Warning! This may cause a huge security hole in your system. This option is not recommended. Please do not use it if you have important data on your device. ❗⚠️