setuid login scripts as a shell

[Bob Gorman]

>I'm wondering if there is any way to have a setuid login script?
>
>Have a user login via ssh to the system and when properly authenticated run the
>setuid binary.

You could exec the setuid program in the .bash_profile.

Or go in with SSH as the desired user, having set up the authorized_keys so the original user would not need to know the password.

There is also sudo.

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