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=Privileged Process=
=Privileged Process=
Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and unprivileged processes. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root.
=Unprivileged Process=
=Unprivileged Process=
=Effective User ID=
=Effective User ID=
=Effective Group ID=
=Effective Group ID=
=Supplementary Group List=
=Supplementary Group List=

Revision as of 21:26, 1 March 2021

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Privileged Process

Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and unprivileged processes. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root.

Unprivileged Process

Effective User ID

Effective Group ID

Supplementary Group List