Message336033
| Author | patrick.mclean |
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| Recipients | patrick.mclean |
| Date | 2019-02-20.01:24:18 |
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| Message-id | <1550625858.55.0.53498127684.issue36046@roundup.psfhosted.org> |
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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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| 2019-02-20 01:24:18 | patrick.mclean | set | recipients: + patrick.mclean |
| 2019-02-20 01:24:18 | patrick.mclean | set | messageid: <1550625858.55.0.53498127684.issue36046@roundup.psfhosted.org> |
| 2019-02-20 01:24:18 | patrick.mclean | link | issue36046 messages |
| 2019-02-20 01:24:18 | patrick.mclean | create | |