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Might be a good move

Might be a good move

Posted Jun 23, 2025 23:56 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Might be a good move by tux3
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

> I'm afraid I may be a little slow. For those in the back, why is a single greeter uid bad?

Just off the top of my head, compromising one won't give the attacker full access to the runtime state [1] of all of the others?

[1] Notably including any credentials entered


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