logging as root using python script

[max.derkachev at gmail.com]

Unixish system won't let You execute a setuid script with the setuid
privileges. Only real machine code can be executed so.
But of course, there are workarounds. When, say, you have a perl script
with setuid bit set, and sperl (setuid root perl) is installed, the
perl interpreter choses  sperl to interpret your script (sperl makes it
impossible to execute a symlink attak, which is the reason why UNIX
does not leverage privileges for setuid scripts).
So, You may write a perl suid wrapper for your python script, and let
sperl execute it.