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su(user) private

Changes the process’s uid and gid to the ones of user

# File lib/webrick/utils.rb, line 34
    def su(user)
      if pw = Etc.getpwnam(user)
        Process::initgroups(user, pw.gid)
        Process::Sys::setgid(pw.gid)
        Process::Sys::setuid(pw.uid)
      else
        warn("WEBrick::Utils::su doesn't work on this platform", uplevel: 1)
      end
    end

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