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by ratg13 323 days ago
Seems like they could have taken a shortcut by giving copilot a sudo binary to use as base64.
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jfyi 322 days ago
You would need to change ownership of the file to root also.
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yencabulator 319 days ago
Base64 is a bytes-to-ASCII encoding and does not magically transport file system metadata such as owner and suid bit. The sudo binary has no special powers by its mere byte content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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