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Chef::Provider::Group::Groupmod

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add_group_members(members) click to toggle source

Adds a list of usernames to the group using `user mod`

# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 95
def add_group_members(members)
  Chef::Log.debug("#{@new_resource} adding members #{members.join(', ')}") if !members.empty?
  members.each do |user|
    shell_out!("user mod -G #{@new_resource.group_name} #{user}")
  end
end
create_group() click to toggle source

Create the group

# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 36
def create_group
  command = "group add"
  command << set_options
  shell_out!(command)

  add_group_members(@new_resource.members)
end
load_current_resource() click to toggle source
# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 28
def load_current_resource
  super
  [ "group", "user" ].each do |binary|
    raise Chef::Exceptions::Group, "Could not find binary /usr/sbin/#{binary} for #{@new_resource}" unless ::File.exists?("/usr/sbin/#{binary}")
  end
end
manage_group() click to toggle source

Manage the group when it already exists

# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 45
def manage_group
  if @new_resource.append
    to_add = @new_resource.members.dup
    to_add.reject! { |user| @current_resource.members.include?(user) }

    to_delete = Array.new

    Chef::Log.debug("#{@new_resource} not changing group members, the group has no members to add") if to_add.empty?
  else
    to_add = @new_resource.members.dup
    to_add.reject! { |user| @current_resource.members.include?(user) }

    to_delete = @current_resource.members.dup
    to_delete.reject! { |user| @new_resource.members.include?(user) }

    Chef::Log.debug("#{@new_resource} setting group members to: none") if @new_resource.members.empty?
  end

  if to_delete.empty?
    # If we are only adding new members to this group, then
    # call add_group_members with only those users
    add_group_members(to_add)
  else
    Chef::Log.debug("#{@new_resource} removing members #{to_delete.join(', ')}")

    # This is tricky, but works: rename the existing group to
    # "<name>_bak", create a new group with the same GID and
    # "<name>", then set correct members on that group
    rename = "group mod -n #{@new_resource.group_name}_bak #{@new_resource.group_name}"
    shell_out!(rename)

    create = "group add"
    create << set_options(:overwrite_gid => true)
    shell_out!(create)

    # Ignore to_add here, since we're replacing the group we
    # have to add all members who should be in the group.
    add_group_members(@new_resource.members)

    remove = "group del #{@new_resource.group_name}_bak"
    shell_out!(remove)
  end
end
remove_group() click to toggle source

Remove the group

# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 90
def remove_group
  shell_out!("group del #{@new_resource.group_name}")
end
set_options(overwrite_gid=false) click to toggle source

Little bit of magic as per Adam's useradd provider to pull and assign the command line flags

Returns

<string>

A string containing the option and then the quoted value

# File lib/chef/provider/group/groupmod.rb, line 106
def set_options(overwrite_gid=false)
  opts = ""
  if overwrite_gid || @new_resource.gid && (@current_resource.gid != @new_resource.gid)
    opts << " -g '#{@new_resource.gid}'"
  end
  if overwrite_gid
    opts << " -o"
  end
  opts << " #{@new_resource.group_name}"
  opts
end

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