<div><div dir="auto">It's no secret I harbor no love for systemd. But there's two things here: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. SysV init scripts default to root if the script author and/or app doesn't do anything to set appropriate privileges. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. The bug here is that systemd is parsing the 0 as the user id number instead of a username. This is a problem because a) the parameter shouldn't be overloaded like that and b) the project leader doesn't see this as a problem</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 21:54 Joey Kelly <<a href="mailto:joey@joeykelly.net">joey@joeykelly.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.securityweek.com/linux-systemd-gives-root-privileges-invalid-usernames" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.securityweek.com/linux-systemd-gives-root-privileges-invalid-usernames</a><br>
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