Linux Security Concepts
Internal
Privileged Mode
A process that runs in privileged mode has full access to the kernel. A container that runs in privileged mode has full access to the container runtime host's kernel.
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. Privileged processes bypass all kernel permission checks.
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Privileged Container
Unprivileged Process
An unprivileged process is a process with a non-zero its effective user ID. Unprivileged processes are subject to full permission checking based on the process' credentials: effective UID, effective GID and supplementary group list.