Does selecting a Group check limit the run to ONLY those Checks/Extras in the Group?

[edschreibman]

If I run prowler with a -g for example: ./prowler -g hipaa
Does that mean ONLY the Groups/Checks in that group are used?

for HIPAA as an example:
https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/blob/master/groups/group10_hipaa
I assume Prowler is ONLY using the checks/extras as listed in the line that starts with
GROUP_CHECKS[10]='check12,check113...'

If I run it with no flag are all checks and no "extras" run?
If I run with -g extras are ALL extras and ALL checks run? (except experimental) ?

[jfagoagas]

Hi @edschreibman, first of all thank you for using Prowler.

• If you run /prowler -g hipaa only the checks included here (group10_hipaa) will run. You're right, only the checks included in GROUP_CHECKS[10].
• If you run Prowler without flags like ./prowler the 243 checks will be executed, both checks and extras.
• If you run ./prowler -g extras only the checks included in the extras groups will be executed

  prowler/groups/group7_extras

  Line 17 in a769bb8

  GROUP_CHECKS[7]='extra71,extra72,extra73,extra74,extra75,extra76,extra77,extra78,extra79,extra710,extra711,extra712,extra713,extra714,extra715,extra716,extra717,extra718,extra719,extra720,extra721,extra722,extra723,extra724,extra725,extra726,extra727,extra728,extra729,extra730,extra731,extra732,extra733,extra734,extra735,extra736,extra738,extra739,extra740,extra741,extra742,extra743,extra744,extra745,extra746,extra747,extra748,extra749,extra750,extra751,extra752,extra753,extra754,extra755,extra757,extra758,extra761,extra762,extra763,extra764,extra765,extra767,extra768,extra769,extra770,extra771,extra772,extra773,extra774,extra775,extra776,extra777,extra778,extra779,extra780,extra781,extra782,extra783,extra784,extra785,extra786,extra787,extra788,extra791,extra792,extra793,extra794,extra795,extra796,extra797,extra798,extra799,extra7100,extra7101,extra7102,extra7103,extra7104,extra7105,extra7106,extra7107,extra7108,extra7109,extra7110,extra7111,extra7112,extra7113,extra7114,extra7115,extra7116,extra7117,extra7118,extra7119,extra7120,extra7121,extra7122,extra7123,extra7124,extra7125,extra7126,extra7127,extra7128,extra7129,extra7130,extra7131,extra7132,extra7133,extra7134,extra7135,extra7136,extra7137,extra7138,extra7139,extra7140,extra7141,extra7142,extra7143,extra7144,extra7145,extra7146,extra7147,extra7148,extra7149,extra7150,extra7151,extra7152,extra7153,extra7154,extra7155,extra7156,extra7157,extra7158,extra7159,extra7160,extra7161,extra7162,extra7163,extra7164,extra7165,extra7166,extra7167,extra7168,extra7169,extra7170,extra7171,extra7172,extra7173,extra7174,extra7175,extra7176,extra7177,extra7178,extra7179,extra7180,extra7181,extra7182,extra7183,extra7184,extra7185,extra7186,extra7187,extra7188,extra7189,extra7190,extra7191,extra7192,extra7193,extra7195'

Thanks again!