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--empower gives full privileges to a non-root user. Currently this includes all capabilities but we leave the option open to add more privileges via this option in the future. Why is this useful? When running privileged development or debugging commands from your home directory (think bpftrace, strace and such), you want any files written by these tools to be owned by your current user, and not by the root user. run0 --empower will allow you to run all privileged operations (assuming the tools check for capabilities and not UIDs), while any files written by the tools will still be owned by the current user.
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