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RFE: Add environment variables for the calling user's group name, GID, and supplementary group names/IDs #524

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@Melab

$SUDO_UID contains the UID of the process that called sudo , $SUDO_GID contains the GID, and $SUDO_USER contains the username. To fully complement these, sudo should also set environment variables containing:

  • The group name corresponding to the GID that a process calls sudo with.
  • The supplementary GIDs of the calling process.
  • The group names corresponding to the supplementary GIDs.

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