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Dropping linux privileges

https://blog.habets.se/2022/03/Dropping-privileges.html

"If you’re writing a tool that takes untrusted input, and you should treat almost all input as untrusted, then it’s a good idea to add a layer of defense against bugs in your code. What good is a buffer overflow, if the process is fully sandboxed? This applies to both processes running as root, and as normal users. Though there are some differences."