How do you start the privileged process as a normal user?

dataflow · on Dec 16, 2019

You don't. It's already started as part of the system. Or you ask some part of the system that is willing to authenticate you to do it for you.

exikyut · on Dec 17, 2019

Shhhhhhhhhh.

Stop giving systemd more ideas.

(/s)

(But seriously, imagine a world where you can't get root because D-Bus crashed.)

ATsch · on Dec 17, 2019

PolicyKit essentially already does this, and all of the systemd *ctl commands support authentication via polkit

exikyut · on Dec 18, 2019

TIL (so that's what the whole PolicyKit thing was all about).

Now I'm wondering what its worst case crash behavior is like.