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bpo-36046: Add user and group parameters to subprocess (GH-11950)

* subprocess: Add user, group and extra_groups paremeters to subprocess.Popen

This adds a `user` parameter to the Popen constructor that will call
setreuid() in the child before calling exec(). This allows processes
running as root to safely drop privileges before running the subprocess
without having to use a preexec_fn.

This also adds a `group` parameter that will call setregid() in
the child process before calling exec().

Finally an `extra_groups` parameter was added that will call
setgroups() to set the supplimental groups.
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Patrick McLean committed
2b2ead74382513d0bb9ef34504e283a71e6a706f
Parent: 57b7dbc
Committed by Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> on 9/12/2019, 5:15:44 PM