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If you manage to infect your systemd unit list which requires root privilege and give it a permission to run on boot I don't think it's an attack vector anymore its one's stupidity. Systemd is the furthest thing from an outside attack. Someone might poison your bashrc and its more possible than someone inserting a malicious unit file and asking you to run.
I didn't know about bashrc poisoning, thx for the intel.
You are probably right, systemd attack vector might not be that big as it seems. But its a bit unfortunate that it has that small extra negative layer of security.
The bashrc poisoning thing was sarcastic. the point is it's not important as an attack vector because if that's even part of your surface area, then the attacker is already pretty well into your system
Thx for clarifying the point. 👍