Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails, or Sinatra stack on a brand new slice directly after its been created
You cannot verify a group exists with id -g alone.
It's commonly incorrectly documented that you can run id -g groupname infact it is for displaying user and group information of the calling process, ie the current user, or if passed a specific user.
usage: id -AGnMPgrpu [user]
This patch correctly implements checking whether a group exists on a unix system.
Fixes #179
Note:
I decided against using getent because it is no longer available on OSX since Apple started using DirectoryService instead of NetInfo
You cannot verify a group exists with
id -galone. It's commonly incorrectly documented that you can runid -g groupnameinfact it is for displaying user and group information of the calling process, ie the current user, or if passed a specific user.usage: id -AGnMPgrpu [user]This patch correctly implements checking whether a group exists on a unix system.
Fixes #179
Note: I decided against using
getentbecause it is no longer available on OSX since Apple started using DirectoryService instead of NetInfo