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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 classify 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)

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