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Re: [SLE] What is a netgroup?
  • From: Guy Van Sanden <sienix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:51:21 GMT
  • Message-id: <20010517.10512181@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I don't know exactly, but netgroups can be used by NIS (not by
default).

If you don't have NIS, you won't have/need netgroups.

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On 09/05/2001, 16:05:31, Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx> wrote
regarding [SLE] What is a netgroup?:


> The man page for sudoers(5) mentions that one kind of user
> specification is "+netgroup". I haven't encountered the
> term "netgroup" before, and "apropos netgroup" doesn't turn
> up anything.

> So what is a netgroup? What are netgroups useful for?
> How are they created and modified?

> Paul



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