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  1. With patch on namespaces, remove the pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce label from an existing namespace, or set it to privileged, disabling PSA there

  2. Or with create on namespaces, create a fresh namespace with no PSA label at all, which starts permissive

  3. Either path assumes no restrictive cluster-wide default (AdmissionConfiguration).

    With such a default, both fall back to it instead of to permissive

  4. On its own this only removes a guard.

    Creating the privileged pod needs a pods create verb, which this path does not include

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