[systemd-devel] Is there a reason to run systemd Units with root access?

[Mariusz Wojcik]

Hi,

I’m just asking because of the latest “not-a-bug” [1]. As far as I know, there aren’t many services that need full root access (maybe for getting a low port number). Except for that I don’t see many use cases. Therefore, I think it would be useful to make the decision for root access more explicit, e.g. User=root is needed to start units as root. Also I don’t think it is a sane default is to start any unit as root when there is no valid User property. Even the security of systemd would benefit because it would save people from accidentally running services as root.

Regards,
Mariusz Wojcik

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237
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