Re: Check if a user in group exists

"vratislav.podzimek via help-cfengine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 12:57 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello!
> I have hard coded for add a user in group. How to check by 'ifvarclass' (or any), that a user in
> group exist and don't run the command 'usermod'?
> command:
>   "/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G $(group_index)  $(user_index)";
Makes me think we could extend the userexists() function to take a group name as an optional
argument.

Without it, I think the best option is to use regline() on /etc/group.

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Vratislav

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