group

group

Use the group resource to manage a local group.

Syntax

A group resource block manages groups on a node:

group 'www-data' do
  action :modify
  members 'maintenance'
  append true
end

The full syntax for all of the properties that are available to the group resource is:

group 'name' do
  append                     TrueClass, FalseClass
  excluded_members           Array
  gid                        String, Integer
  group_name                 String # defaults to 'name' if not specified
  members                    Array
  non_unique                 TrueClass, FalseClass
  notifies                   # see description
  provider                   Chef::Provider::Group
  subscribes                 # see description
  system                     TrueClass, FalseClass
  a