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start-stop-daemon

Start and stop system daemons; can spawn a shell.

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start-stop-daemon
start-stop-daemon

Sandbox: execFile · Timeout: 30s

Capabilities

security.privilege-escalation.shell

Contract

Outputs

process.output

Command execution output

Side effects: process_spawn

Workflow Edges

Produces

process.output

Resource Profile

ResourceValue
CPUlow
Memory16 MB
Networknone
Disk I/Olow

Examples

Spawn an interactive shell (sudo, suid, unprivileged)

start-stop-daemon -S -x /bin/sh

Documentation

start-stop-daemon

start-stop-daemon is a command-line utility. Start and stop system daemon programs; can also spawn an interactive shell.

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