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[Francesco Banconi <frankban@xxxxxxxxx>]

> All those helpers are taken from setuplxc.py, btw.
> 
> The su contextmanager has an issue: the euid and egid are not set back
> properly when there is an error in the with block, for some reason. 

Trapping the error (re-raised inside the generator) using a try/finally statement should solve this.
E.g. http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/836410/

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