Passwd and Group as nodejs objects with management methods
Password and group maintenance library using promises.
(part of the Partout project).
``javascript
var passwd = require('passwd-group-obj').passwd,
PUser = require('passwd-group-obj').PUser;
passwd.$loadUsers()
.then(function () {
return passwd.$addUser(new PUser({
name: 'foo',
uid: 32000,
gid: 8,
gecos: 'Foo User',
dir: '/home/foo',
shell: '/bin/bash'
}))
})
.then(function () {
console.log('foo user:', passwd.foo);
return passwd.foo.$set('gecos', 'FOO');
})
.then(function () {
console.log('foo user gecos:', passwd.foo.$get('gecos'));
return passwd.foo.$delete();
})
`
Also manages shadow password attributes, like min/max age, expire etc.
`javascript
var group = require('passwd-group-obj').group,
GGroup = require('passwd-group-obj').GGroup;
group.$loadGroups()
.then(function () {
return group.$addGroup(new GGroup({
name: 'foog',
gid: 32000,
user_list: ['root', 'sshd']
}))
})
.then(function () {
console.log('foog group:', group.foog);
return group.foog.$set('gid', 32003);
})
.then(function () {
console.log('foog gid:', group.foog.$get('gid'));
return group.foog.$delete();
})
``
If the unit-tests are run as root, they WILL make test changes to /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group.
My test environment is safely achieved using LXD containers for various flavours of Linux. See these scripts for details:
* https://github.com/partoutx/partout/blob/master/agent/launch_lxd_test_containers.sh
* https://github.com/partoutx/partout/blob/master/agent/start_lxd_containers.sh
* https://github.com/partoutx/partout/blob/master/agent/stop_lxd_containers.sh
* https://github.com/partoutx/partout/blob/master/agent/delete_lxd_containers.sh
The container folder bindings allow me to run gulp watch and to have unit-tests run in all containers every time a change is saved.