Crab

Crab, a.k.a Cool Rust Authentication Binary is a rusty replacement for sudo or doas on Linux systems.

Installation

From Source

First run cargo install --release to compile the binary. Then run install.sh as root to install crab.

Arch Based Systems

If you are on arch-linux, crab is avaliable on the AUR as crab.

Configuration

Crab supports multiple users with persistence. Each line of the config is the username, then true of false if the crab authentication persists.

For Example

root true
tylerm false

The default configuration file is stored in /usr/share/crab/crab.conf and must be coppied to /etc/crab.conf.