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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lopes)
Tue May 14 03:00:17 1996
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 02:56:15 EDT
From: Chris Lopes <lopes@MIT.EDU>
hi
has anyone ever used netgroups and netgroup_mkdb before
if so, read on...
the man page says:
Each line in the file consists of a netgroup name followed by a list of
the members of the netgroup. Each member can be either the name of an-
other netgroup or a specification of a tuple as follows:
(host, user, domain)
where the host, user, and domain are character string names for the cor-
responding component. Any of the comma separated fields may be empty to
specify a ``wildcard'' value or may consist of the string ``-'' to speci-
fy ``no valid value''.
yet i am almost totally positive (from experimentation) that leaving the
host field blank (to mean "*" or "wildcard" causes mountd to core dump
on startup)
does this sound plausible?
has anyone seen this happen before?
i have tried to get this working for hours and hours, and no one seems
to have ever used netgroups before...
thanx for any help
ps - i am equally convinced that the wildcard thing works fine for the
other 2 fields
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