R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

I started out writing that there must be better stuff available now for doing 
this, but a search on 'setuid wrapper' on google reveals mostly people asking 
about or talking about rolling their own special purpose scripts.

That said, there is at least one better alternative in the CGI context, which 
is Apache suexec support.

Overall, I don't think we want to be responsible for supporting this, since it 
really about OS level security and not a core expertise of the Python 
community.  I'd vote for dropping it.  After all, it will still be available in 
the source tarballs for older versions of Python, and it was never meant to be 
used directly anyway.

Personally, in this day and age I would never have thought to look in the Misc 
directory of the Python tarball for a setuid wrapper script.  I'd have started 
with google, and this script doesn't show up on first few pages, at least :)  
So I don't think there's much value added in shipping this anymore, either.

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