From 00dbaf1e9ab0e59d81662f0f3561897bef499a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 16:49:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add get_permissions/get_owner/get_group/get_user_groups

---
 cloudinit/util.py | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py
index 88d6d53..2379177 100644
--- a/cloudinit/util.py
+++ b/cloudinit/util.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ from errno import ENOENT, ENOEXEC
 
 from base64 import b64decode, b64encode
 from six.moves.urllib import parse as urlparse
+from typing import List
 
 import six
 
@@ -1887,6 +1888,51 @@ def chmod(path, mode):
         with SeLinuxGuard(path):
             os.chmod(path, real_mode)
 
+def get_permissions(path: str) -> int:
+    """
+    Returns the octal permissions of the file/folder pointed by the path,
+    encoded as an int.
+
+    @param path: The full path of the file/folder.
+    """
+
+    return stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(path).st_mode)
+
+
+def get_owner(path: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Returns the owner of the file/folder pointed by the path.
+
+    @param path: The full path of the file/folder.
+    """
+    st = os.stat(path)
+    return pwd.getpwuid(st.st_uid).pw_name
+
+
+def get_group(path: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Returns the group of the file/folder pointed by the path.
+
+    @param path: The full path of the file/folder.
+    """
+    st = os.stat(path)
+    return grp.getgrgid(st.st_gid).gr_name
+
+
+def get_user_groups(username: str) -> List[str]:
+    """
+    Returns a list of all groups to which the user belongs
+
+    @param username: the user we want to check
+    """
+    groups = []
+    for group in grp.getgrall():
+        if username in group.gr_mem:
+            groups.append(group.gr_name)
+
+    gid = pwd.getpwnam(username).pw_gid
+    groups.append(grp.getgrgid(gid).gr_name)
+    return groups
 
 def write_file(filename, content, mode=0o644, omode="wb", copy_mode=False):
     """
-- 
2.27.0