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Sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a Unix socket

sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a UNIX socket.
In this post, I will detail how to replace sudo (a setuid binary) by using SSH over a local UNIX socket. I am of the opinion that setuid/setgid binaries are a UNIX legacy that should be deprecated. I will explain the security reasons behind that statement in a future post. This is related to the work of the Confined Users SIG in Fedora.

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