functions::validation

Types

• valid_user

  • Description: This type is meant to be used to check if strings provided are valid user names. This is however designed to be overriden by site-specific policies. The regex used here as default is the one suggested by the useradd man page.

Variables

• VALID_USER_PATTERN

Functions

• is_component_list

  • Description: checks that the argument is a list and that all the strings identify existing components

  • Arguments:

    • list of valid components

• check_mount

  • Description: adds the mountpoint entry of a given resource to the mount table, if it does not exist there so far, else drops an error

• is_profile_list

  • Description: checks that the argument is a list and that all its elements identify existing profiles. Each name in profiles will be matched against ‘foo’ and ‘profile_foo’, which are considered to be the same, but the latter form is forbidden in the input list.

• is_a_fcahwaddr

  • Description: checks if the argument is a fiber-channel-style hardware address

• is_card_port

  • Description: returns true if the argument is a defined card port

• is_valid_card_ports

  • Description: returns true if all the controller and port indexes are numeric (but have a leading _ to make them work as nlists).

• valid_absolute_file_paths

  • Description: Checks keys of a dict are valid absolute paths to files (not directories) using is_absolute_file_path