Crab

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

Installation

From Source

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

Arch Based Systems

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

Configuration

Crab supports multiple users and persistence. Each line of the config is the username, then true of false if the crab authentication persists, seperated by a space.

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.