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Author patrick.mclean
Recipients patrick.mclean
Date 2019-02-20.01:24:18
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Currently when using python to automate system administration tasks, it is useful to drop privileges sometimes. Currently the only way to do this is via a preexec_fn, which has well-documented problems. It would be useful to be able to pass a user and groups arguments to subprocess.popen.
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