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NAME¶
netgroup - specify network groupsDESCRIPTION¶
The netgroup file defines "netgroups", which are sets of (host, user, domain) tuples, used for permission checking when doing remote mounts, remote logins and remote shells.- (host, user, domain)
- gateway (server,,) (server-sn,,) (server-bb,,)
FILES¶
/etc/netgroupSEE ALSO¶
getnetgrent(3), exports(5), makedbm(8), ypserv(8)WARNINGS¶
The triple (,,domain) allows all users and machines trusted access, and has the same effect as the triple (,,). Use the host and user fields of the triple to restrict the access correctly to a specific set of members.BUGS¶
The Linux libc5 does not query the /etc/netgroup file directly, it only querys the NIS server for the groups. So the netgroup database must be stored in the form of a hashed dbm database just like the passwd(5) and group(5) databases. This manpage mentions getnetgrent(3), but it seems that manpage hasn't been written yet. Since getnetgrent() is part of GNU libc it might also be that it is documented in info format.AUTHOR¶
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>May 1999 | NIS |