diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f3ff975..62122a8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -16,15 +16,32 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends binfmt-support qemu-user-static
+
+      - name: hack in qemu-binfmt
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends binfmt-support qemu-user-static
+
       - run: ./build.sh
+
+      # explicitly test our (native) amd64/i386 binaries
       - run: ./test.sh gosu-amd64
       - run: ./test.sh gosu-i386
       - run: ./test.sh --debian gosu-amd64
       - run: ./test.sh --debian gosu-i386
+
+      # now that we've successfully tested gosu itself, let's hack the test suite a little bit to not use setuid (and to have util-linux's setpriv installed) so we can also smoke test "setpriv-wrapper.sh"
+      - name: hack tests for setpriv
+        run: |
+          sed -ri -e '/^USER /d' Dockerfile.test-*
+          awk '{ print } toupper($1) == "FROM" { print "RUN apk add --no-cache setpriv" }' Dockerfile.test-alpine > Dockerfile.test-alpine.new
+          mv Dockerfile.test-alpine.new Dockerfile.test-alpine
+      - run: ./test.sh setpriv-wrapper.sh
+      - run: ./test.sh --debian setpriv-wrapper.sh
+
+      # smoke test our Docker image builds
       - run: docker build --pull --file hub/Dockerfile.alpine hub
       - run: docker build --pull --file hub/Dockerfile.debian hub
 
+      # run "govulncheck" automatically to ensure we don't have any new/unknown vulnerabilities
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v4
         with:
           go-version: 1.18
diff --git a/Dockerfile.test-alpine b/Dockerfile.test-alpine
index 1277bd9..66d839f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.test-alpine
+++ b/Dockerfile.test-alpine
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.19
+FROM alpine:3.20
 
 # add "nobody" to ALL groups (makes testing edge cases more interesting)
 RUN cut -d: -f1 /etc/group | xargs -rtn1 addgroup nobody
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 06dd7e5..2b0bb1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,24 +58,26 @@ If you're curious about the edge cases that `gosu` handles, see [`Dockerfile.tes
 
 ## Alternatives
 
-### `chroot`
+### `setpriv`
 
-With the `--userspec` flag, `chroot` can provide similar benefits/behavior:
+Available in newer `util-linux` (`>= 2.32.1-0.2`, in Debian; https://manpages.debian.org/buster/util-linux/setpriv.1.en.html):
 
 ```console
-$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:trusty chroot --userspec=nobody / ps aux
+$ docker run -it --rm buildpack-deps:buster-scm setpriv --reuid=nobody --regid=nogroup --init-groups ps faux
 USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
-nobody       1  5.0  0.0   7136   756 ?        Rs+  17:04   0:00 ps aux
+nobody       1  5.0  0.0   9592  1252 pts/0    RNs+ 23:21   0:00 ps faux
 ```
 
-### `setpriv`
+In this repository, you'll find an official `setpriv-wrapper.sh` which implements a `gosu`-compatible interface which passes `gosu`'s test suite.
 
-Available in newer `util-linux` (`>= 2.32.1-0.2`, in Debian; https://manpages.debian.org/buster/util-linux/setpriv.1.en.html):
+### `chroot`
+
+With the `--userspec` flag, `chroot` can provide similar benefits/behavior:
 
 ```console
-$ docker run -it --rm buildpack-deps:buster-scm setpriv --reuid=nobody --regid=nogroup --init-groups ps faux
+$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:trusty chroot --userspec=nobody / ps aux
 USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
-nobody       1  5.0  0.0   9592  1252 pts/0    RNs+ 23:21   0:00 ps faux
+nobody       1  5.0  0.0   7136   756 ?        Rs+  17:04   0:00 ps aux
 ```
 
 ### `su-exec`
diff --git a/setpriv-wrapper.sh b/setpriv-wrapper.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5076597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setpriv-wrapper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+set -eu
+
+#
+# This script is a wrapper around "setpriv" (part of util-linux) which implements a fully gosu-compatible interface (and passes gosu's test suite).
+#
+# It is written in POSIX shell for maximum compatbility, but notably does *not* work with BusyBox's setpriv (as of 2024-06-03) as BusyBox does not implement enough functionality.
+#
+
+# TODO GOSU_PLEASE_LET_ME_BE_COMPLETELY_INSECURE_I_GET_TO_KEEP_ALL_THE_PIECES (block setuid/setgid) -- however, you can't effectively setuid a shell script/interpreted file, so maybe it's fine? 🤔
+
+usage() {
+	cat <<-EOU
+		Usage: $0 user-spec command [args]
+		   eg: $0 tianon bash
+		       $0 nobody:root bash -c 'whoami && id'
+		       $0 1000:1 id
+
+		$0 license: Apache-2.0 (full text at https://github.com/tianon/gosu)
+
+	EOU
+}
+
+case "${1:-}" in
+	--help | -h | '-?') usage; exit 0 ;;
+	--version | -v) echo '???'; exit 0 ;;
+esac
+if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+spec="$1"; shift
+: "${spec:=0}"
+spec="${spec%:}" # "0:" is parsed by moby/sys/user the same as "0"
+case "$spec" in
+	*:*)
+		user="${spec%%:*}"
+		group="${spec#$user:}"
+		[ "$group" != "$spec" ]
+		: "${user:=0}"
+		passwd="$(getent passwd "$user" || :)" # for HOME scraping below
+		set -- --reuid "$user" --regid "$group" --clear-groups -- "$@"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		user="$spec"
+		if passwd="$(getent passwd "$user")" && [ -n "$passwd" ]; then
+			group="$(printf '%s' "$passwd" | cut -d: -f4)"
+			set -- --reuid "$user" --regid "$group" --init-groups -- "$@"
+		else
+			passwd= # to be safe/explicit (for HOME scraping below)
+			case "$user" in
+				*[!0-9]* | '') echo >&2 "error: '$user' is not a user (and is also not numeric)"; exit 1 ;;
+				*) group='0' ;;
+				# (thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/16444570/433558 for this perfect pure-POSIX "is it fully numeric" hack!)
+			esac
+			set -- --reuid "$user" --regid "$group" --clear-groups -- "$@"
+		fi
+		;;
+esac
+
+unset HOME
+HOME="$(printf '%s' "$passwd" | cut -d: -f6)"
+: "${HOME:=/}" # see "setup-user.go"
+export HOME
+
+exec setpriv "$@"