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Peter Timoshevsky
Peter Timoshevsky

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Systemd security w/o User directive

So every systemd service whose unit file has no User directive runs as the root user. Are there any security implications of this? Should I not run untrusted code as a service w/o using User directive or does systemd have some sort of permission sandboxing even though the processes run as root?

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Peter Timoshevsky

I guess no security measures are taken by default, as there is a bunch of things you can do to sandbox services the way you want.