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yencabulator
323 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/