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-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc3
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diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index bdd114c5e49a..5895e7200e96 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -825,6 +825,9 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid)
        users to which the current process can send signals.  So we
        fork a process, switch to uid, and send a mass kill. */
 
+    ProcessOptions options;
+    options.allowVfork = false;
+
     Pid pid = startProcess([&]() {
 
         if (setuid(uid) == -1)