What is the security context of a program run from a startup script on busybox

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If I have an embedded system running linux kernel version 4.1 with a busybox distribution. A startup script runs a program, program1, at startup. Does that program run as if you had logged in as root? Is it controlled by the owner and group permissions?



The permissions of the file are:



-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4726312 Oct 1 13:23 program1


The program is in the root group. Does that mean that the program run at startup runs with root privileges?



What are the benefits of assigning a different group to run this program?










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    If I have an embedded system running linux kernel version 4.1 with a busybox distribution. A startup script runs a program, program1, at startup. Does that program run as if you had logged in as root? Is it controlled by the owner and group permissions?



    The permissions of the file are:



    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4726312 Oct 1 13:23 program1


    The program is in the root group. Does that mean that the program run at startup runs with root privileges?



    What are the benefits of assigning a different group to run this program?










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      If I have an embedded system running linux kernel version 4.1 with a busybox distribution. A startup script runs a program, program1, at startup. Does that program run as if you had logged in as root? Is it controlled by the owner and group permissions?



      The permissions of the file are:



      -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4726312 Oct 1 13:23 program1


      The program is in the root group. Does that mean that the program run at startup runs with root privileges?



      What are the benefits of assigning a different group to run this program?










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      If I have an embedded system running linux kernel version 4.1 with a busybox distribution. A startup script runs a program, program1, at startup. Does that program run as if you had logged in as root? Is it controlled by the owner and group permissions?



      The permissions of the file are:



      -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4726312 Oct 1 13:23 program1


      The program is in the root group. Does that mean that the program run at startup runs with root privileges?



      What are the benefits of assigning a different group to run this program?







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