group

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Overview

Package group allows group lookups by name or id.

Index

• type Group
  • func Current() (*Group, error)
  • func Lookup(groupname string) (*Group, error)
  • func LookupId(gid string) (*Group, error)
• type UnknownGroupError
  • func (e UnknownGroupError) Error() string
• type UnknownGroupIdError
  • func (e UnknownGroupIdError) Error() string

Types

type Group

type Group struct {
	Gid      string
	Name     string
	Password string
	Members  []string
}

Group represents a group

On posix systems Gid contains a decimal number representing gid. On windows Gid contain security identifier (SID) in a string format. On Plan 9, Gid, and Name will be the contents of /dev/group.

func Current

func Current() (*Group, error)

Current returns the current user's group.

func Lookup

func Lookup(groupname string) (*Group, error)

Lookup looks up a group by name. If the group cannot be found, the returned error is of type UnknownGroupError.

func LookupId

func LookupId(gid string) (*Group, error)

LookupId looks up a group by groupid. If the group cannot be found, the returned error is of type UnknownGroupIdError.

type UnknownGroupError

type UnknownGroupError string

UnknownGroupError is returned by Lookup when a group cannot be found

func (UnknownGroupError) Error

func (e UnknownGroupError) Error() string

type UnknownGroupIdError

type UnknownGroupIdError int

UnknownGroupIdError is returned by LookupId when a group cannot be found.

func (UnknownGroupIdError) Error

func (e UnknownGroupIdError) Error() string