bare-posix

Reference for bare-posix: POSIX-specific bindings for Bare—user, group, and identity calls.

bare-posix provides POSIX-specific bindings for Bare—the user, group, and identity calls that have no portable Windows equivalent. It's a native addon (POSIX platforms: macOS, Linux, and other Unix systems).

npm i bare-posix

API

User and group IDs

`posix.getuid()` · `posix.setuid(id)` · `posix.geteuid()` · `posix.seteuid(id)`

Get or set the real and effective user IDs.

`posix.getgid()` · `posix.setgid(id)` · `posix.getegid()` · `posix.setegid(id)`

Get or set the real and effective group IDs.

`posix.getgroups()`

Return the supplementary group IDs.

Lookups

`posix.getpwnam(name)` · `posix.getgrnam(name)`

Look up a user (passwd) or group entry by name.