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Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <68491+gpshead@users.noreply.github.com>
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the value in ``pw_uid`` will be used. If the value is an integer, it will
be passed verbatim. (POSIX only)

.. note::

Specifying *user* will not drop existing supplementary group memberships!
The caller must also pass ``extra_groups=()`` to reduce the group membership
of the child process for security purposes.

.. availability:: POSIX
.. versionadded:: 3.9

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