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TIL there's a thing called Mitogen which can chain ssh and sudo and serial console and whatnot, and execute python functions on the other end (even if the other end only has python 2.4 and a read-only filesystem).
It can also tunnel sftp/rsync/other things that usually go on top of ssh.
Which means you can rsync over sudo. Isn't that awesome!

https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/