VMS Help SPAWN, Qualifiers, /PRIVILEGES  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

       /PRIVILEGES={CURRENT|AUTHORIZED}

    Determines whether the spawned process inherits the current
    process' current or authorized privileges as its authorized
    privileges. By default, the authorized privilege mask for
    the subprocess is taken from the current privileges of its
    creator. (This corresponds to /PRIVILEGES=CURRENT.) If the
    /PRIVILEGES=AUTHORIZED qualifier is specified, the subprocess'
    authorized privileges will be taken from the caller's authorized
    privileges.