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by mbrumlow 3042 days ago
Right, but that means your service is running with elevated privileges, that does not mean your build tool needs too.

Furthermore if you do have a application that requires root level access then the parts that do should be isolated from the parts that don't. You don't get to just get a blank check to run as root because you need to bind to a low port.