osf1 man page for netgroup

netgroup(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       netgroup(4)

NAME
       netgroup - List of network groups

DESCRIPTION
       The netgroup file defines network-wide groups used for permission checking when doing remote mounts, remote logins, and remote shells.  For
       remote mounts, the information in the netgroup file is used to classify machines; for remote logins and remote shells, it is used to  clas-
       sify users.  Each line of the netgroup file defines a group and has the following format:

       groupname member_1 ... member_n

       Each member can be either another group name or a combination of the host name, user name, and domain name in the following format:

       (hostname, username, domainname)

       Any  of	the three fields can be empty, in which case a wildcard is assumed.  For example, to define a group to which everyone belongs, the
       following entry could appear in the netgroup file: universal (,,)

       Field names that begin with something other than a letter, digit, or underscore (such as ``-'') work in the  opposite  way.   For  example:
       justmachines (analytica,-,suez) justpeople (-,babbage,suez)

       The machine analytica belongs to the group justmachines in the domain suez, but no users belong to it.  Similarly, the user babbage belongs
       to the group justpeople in the domain suez, but no machines belong to it.

       Network groups are part of the NIS database and are accessed through these files:

       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.pag
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byuser.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byuser.pag
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byhost.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byhost.pag

       These files can be created from /etc/netgroup using makedbm(8).

FILES
       /etc/netgroup
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.pag
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byuser.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byuser.pag
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byhost.dir
       /etc/yp/domainname/netgroup.byhost.pag

RELATED INFORMATION
       getnetgrent(3), makedbm(8), ypserv(8) delim off

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