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Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)



On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Indeed, systemd has not been written with security in mind. Neither have
> sysvinit nor upstart, AFAICT.

I wouldn't presume to say whether the systemd authors had security in mind
while writing it.  But I will stand by the overall security design of either
sysvinit or upstart, namely that the user-accessible interfaces are kept as
small as possible to make them as auditable as possible.

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