• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    7 months ago

    Some executables are special. When you run them, they automagically run as root instead! But if sudo isn’t very, very careful, you can trick it into letting you run things as root that you shouldn’t be able to.

    Run0 DM’s systemd asking it to go fork a process as root for you, and serves as the middleman between you and the other process.