NIS authentication

[Russ Allbery]

Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:

> a moment, NIS group is not equivalent of /etc/group; there's a nis table
> called group which has the same meaning, but getgrnam and getpwnam have
> to take care about this one. NIS group is something different. HMmm have
> i look to the source even to check what groups did he make support for ?
> :)

The code looks like it just uses getgrnam().  So it's actually not even
specific to NIS.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>