Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (2015)

• gosu

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  Simple Go-based setuid+setgid+setgroups+exec

  I assume that is why I see gosu [1] used so often for dropping privileges. It's good to have some explanation as to why su is unsuitable for this.

  [1] https://github.com/tianon/gosu

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