doas: syntax error at line 1

[ReduxFlakes]

doas: syntax error at line 1

[slicer69]

It looks like there is no newline character at the end of the first line of the doas.conf. Just open the file again and press Enter at the end of the line. Then save the doas.conf file. There is a reference to this requirement in the doas.conf manual page:

 Entries in the doas.conf file must end with a newline character to indicate where a
 rule ends. Most text editors will add a newline or end of line character for you,
 however not all tools do. Please make sure each rule in your doas.conf file ends
 with a newline (Enter) character. Otherwise syntax checks will fail with an error
 "syntax error at line..."

[slicer69]

Thanks for letting us know. It sounds like there is a syntax error in the doas.conf file. Could you post the contents of the /usr/local/etc/doas.conf file here?

[ReduxFlakes]

What i have on the doas.conf file is this:
permit tiago as root

Thanks for the quick response!

[slicer69]

Assuming your username is tiago, then this line looks correct. There are a few things which could be happening here.

1. There is a special character like a Tab in the line which is not visible. Creating a fresh doas.conf file can fix this.

2. The doas.conf file has been created where doas is not looking for it. For instance, if you created your file as /etc/doas.conf, but doas is looking in /usr/local/etc/doas.conf for its configuration.

3. Please make sure root has read access to the doas.conf file.

[ReduxFlakes]

Thanks, after deleting the /usr/local/etc/doas.conf and creating a new one in /etc/doas.conf and in /usr/local/etc/doas.conf with the permission root: read & write, gives this message doas: /usr/local/etc/doas.conf is writable by group or other but if i change to root: read only gives again doas: syntax error at line 1 i'm not sure where is the problem i tried creating a new one but gives the same problem, thanks for responding, i attached a print with the problem and yes my username is tiago.

[slicer69]

Thank you for posting this. Would you please post the output of the two following commands:

 ls -l /usr/local/bin/doas

and the command

 sudo cat /usr/local/etc/doas.conf

Thank you

[ReduxFlakes]

Here is the output:

[ReduxFlakes]

Thanks the command is now working like a charm, probably mousepad doesn't add a newline, thank you so much!