What is meant by "essential Services"?

I understand that in the latest versions of Mac OS X, access to "essential services" by a system administrator requires secondary authentication through a separate device for safety reasons. Pretty good, but what are these "essential services"?

They include resources reserved only for use internally by OS X system preferences, editor of discs, etc. Access is allowed only to a system administrator with full root access. They are not supposed to be accessed by the user, not even an admin user.

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