Class: DarwinUser

Inherits:

UnixUser

• Object
• UserInfo
• UnixUser
• DarwinUser

Defined in:

lib/resources/user.rb

Overview

we do not use ‘finger’ for MacOS, because it is harder to parse data with it instead we use ‘dscl’ to request user data

See Also:

• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/fingerd.8.html
• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dscl.1.html
• http://superuser.com/questions/592921/mac-osx-users-vs-dscl-command-to-list-user

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from UserInfo

#inspec

Instance Method Summary

• #meta_info(username) ⇒ Object

Methods inherited from UnixUser

#identity, #parse_value

Methods inherited from UserInfo

#credentials, #initialize

Methods included from Converter

#convert_to_i

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from UserInfo

Instance Method Details

#meta_info(username) ⇒ Object

# File 'lib/resources/user.rb', line 254

def meta_info(username)
  cmd = inspec.command("dscl -q . -read /Users/#{username} NFSHomeDirectory PrimaryGroupID RecordName UniqueID UserShell")
  return nil if cmd.exit_status != 0

  params = SimpleConfig.new(
    cmd.stdout.chomp,
    assignment_re: /^\s*([^:]*?)\s*:\s*(.*?)\s*$/,
    group_re: nil,
    multiple_values: false,
  ).params

  {
    home: params['NFSHomeDirectory'],
    shell: params['UserShell'],
  }
end