Can non-root user create/start services?

Tomasz CEDRO tomek at cedro.info
Tue May 18 20:01:26 UTC 2021


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 9:58 PM Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> In general Unix always separates root (administrator tasks) from users
> (non administrative tasks). This is why "gaining root" as
> standard/restricted user is always the most interesting part ;-)

Clarification - any way for your user to perform root operations is
also a good way for others to perform root actions - this is usually a
serious security threat and you want avoid that :-)

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