NIS authentication

[Russ Allbery]

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

> Hmmm, maybe not using NIS group, but specialized NIS table(s) would be
> better; I think NIS groups are for NIS management not for such things,
> even if you can use them this way. I should ask the poster of the patch
> but i don't have his email anymore...

Marc Lajeunesse <mlajeune at matrox.com>.  But I don't think he means
netgroups or anything like that; I think he just means the standard
distributed group map (like the passwd map, but for /etc/group).

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