• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    A non privileged user doesn’t have the access necessary to run a program that can accomplish this.

    It would be a script called “sudo” somewhere in your PATH. You type sudo, you give it your password, done.

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      4 months ago

      That’s called ‘privilege escalation’, and replacing system level calls with user level calls is closely watched for and guarded against with many different security measures including SELinux.

      You’ve already outed yourself multiple times in this thread as someone who doesn’t understand how security in the real world works. Take the L and try to learn from this. It’s okay not to understand something. But it’s very important to recognize when that happens and not claim to understand better than someone else.