Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 785
This lets the desktop environments have more advanced features then they would with init systems that don't do this delegation.
First, is it the regular user account or the DE itself which essentially gets its privileges escalated? Either way, that sounds inherently dangerous -- if you want the DE to be all powerfull, just login as root (there are good reasons not to login as root of course, but if systemD is doing it for you anyway, why even bother with the distinction between root and user accounts).