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  2. setuid - Wikipedia

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    A user named 'thompson' attempts to execute the file. The executable permission for all users is set (the '1') so 'thompson' can execute the file. The file owner is 'root' and the SUID permission is set (the '4') - so the file is executed as 'root'. The reason an executable would be run as 'root' is so that it can modify specific files that the ...

  3. Network Information Service - Wikipedia

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    For example, slapd (the standalone LDAP daemon) generally runs as a non-root user, and SASL-based encryption of LDAP traffic is natively supported. On large LANs , DNS servers may provide better nameserver functionality than NIS or LDAP can provide, leaving just site-wide identification information for NIS master and slave systems to serve.

  4. OS-level virtualization - Wikipedia

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    OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, including containers (LXC, Solaris Containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, Docker, Podman), zones (Solaris Containers), virtual private servers (), partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), and jails ...

  5. Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC.According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked ...

  6. Filesystem in Userspace - Wikipedia

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    Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a bridge to the actual kernel interfaces.

  7. BusyBox - Wikipedia

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    chroot — Run command within a new root directory. chrt; chvt; cksum — For each file, output crc32 checksum value, length and name of file. clear — Clear the screen. cmp — Compare the contents of two files. comm — Select or reject lines common to two files. cp — Copy files. cpio — Copy files into and out of a "newc" format cpio ...

  8. Podman - Wikipedia

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    In computing, Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant [2] container management tool from Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system, [3] with support for macOS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine. [4]

  9. List of URI schemes - Wikipedia

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    URL scheme in the GNOME desktop environment to access file(s) with administrative permissions with GUI applications in a safer way, instead of sudo, gksu & gksudo, which may be considered insecure GNOME Virtual file system: admin:/ path / to / file example: gedit admin:/etc/default/grub. See more information on: app