Action "system.group"

Create or modify a Unix group.

Callback Parameters

$status
Value is "true" if group was created or modified.

Example

const {$status} = await nikita.system.group({
  name: 'myself'
  system: true
  gid: 490
});
console.log(`Group was created/modified: ${$status}`);

The result of the above action can be viewed with the command cat /etc/group | grep myself producing an output similar to "myself:x:490:".

Hooks

on_action = ({config}) ->
  config.gid = parseInt config.gid, 10 if typeof config.gid is 'string'

Schema definitions

definitions =
  config:
    type: 'object'
    properties:
      'gid':
        type: 'integer'
        description: '''
        Group name or number of the user´s initial login group.
        '''
      'name':
        type: 'string'
        description: '''
        Login name of the group.
        '''
      'system':
        type: 'boolean'
        default: false
        description: '''
        Create a system account, such user are not created with ahome by
        default, set the "home" option if we it to be created.
        '''
    required: ['name']

Handler

handler = ({config, tools: {log}}) ->
  config.system ?= false
  config.gid ?= null
  # throw Error 'Invalid gid option' if config.gid? and isNaN config.gid
  {groups} = await @system.group.read()
  info = groups[config.name]
  log if info
  then message: "Got group information for #{JSON.stringify config.name}", level: 'DEBUG', module: 'nikita/lib/system/group'
  else message: "Group #{JSON.stringify config.name} not present", level: 'DEBUG', module: 'nikita/lib/system/group'
  unless info # Create group
    {$status} = await @execute
      command: [
        'groupadd'
        '-r' if config.system
        "-g #{config.gid}" if config.gid?
        config.name
      ].join ' '
      code: [0, 9]
    log message: "Group defined elsewhere than '/etc/group', exit code is 9", level: 'WARN' unless $status
  else # Modify group
    changes = ['gid'].filter (k) -> config[k]? and "#{info[k]}" isnt "#{config[k]}"
    if changes.length
      await @execute
        command: [
          'groupmod'
          " -g #{config.gid}" if config.gid
          config.name
        ].join ' '
      log message: "Group information modified", level: 'WARN'
    else
      log message: "Group information unchanged", level: 'INFO'

Exports

module.exports =
  handler: handler
  hooks:
    on_action: on_action
  metadata:
    argument_to_config: 'name'
    definitions: definitions

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