[New-bugs-announce] [issue36046] support dropping privileges when running subprocesses

[Patrick McLean]

New submission from Patrick McLean <chutzpah at gentoo.org>:

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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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 336033
nosy: patrick.mclean
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: support dropping privileges when running subprocesses
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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