Writing your own sudo

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  • setuid-wrapper

    A simple setuid wrapper program, intended to launch shell scripts with elevated privileges.

  • su-exec

    switch user and group id and exec

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  • Cython

    The most widely used Python to C compiler

  • An alternative solution is to compile the mysudo.py python script to a native executable with https://cython.org. After that, you can chmod +s the resulting binary. The setuid flag will then be honored.

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