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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man5/netgroup.5 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/netgroup.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/netgroup.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e36152cd --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/netgroup.5 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: netgroup.5,v 1.17 2020/01/25 17:08:34 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: netgroup.5,v 1.3 1995/03/18 14:58:34 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)netgroup.5 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2020 $ +.Dt NETGROUP 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm netgroup +.Nd defines network groups +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +file specifies +.Dq netgroups , +which are sets of +.Sy (host, user, domain) +tuples that are to be given similar network access. +.Pp +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 another netgroup or a specification +of a tuple as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +(host, user, domain) +.Ed +.Pp +where the +.Ar host , +.Ar user , +and +.Ar domain +are character string names for the corresponding component. +Any of the comma separated fields may be empty to specify a +.Dq wildcard +value or may consist of the single character +.Dq \&- +to specify +.Dq no valid value . +The members of the list may be separated by whitespace; the +.Dq \e +character may be used at the end of a line to specify line continuation. +.Pp +Lines that begin with a +.Ql # +are treated as comments. +.Pp +After modification of +.Pa /etc/netgroup , +.Xr netgroup_mkdb 8 +should be run, as the +.Xr getnetgrent 3 +functions only operate on the Berkeley DB file +.Pa /etc/netgroup.db . +.Pp +If that file is not present, and the system supports NIS, then the +.Nm +NIS maps are used. +The NIS maps are also used if the +.Nm +file contains a +.Dq + +entry. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /etc/netgroup.db -compact +.It Pa /etc/netgroup +default netgroup list +.It Pa /etc/netgroup.db +netgroup database +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Define a group of three machines: +.Pp +.Dl friends (10.0.0.2,,) (10.0.0.3,,) (10.0.0.4,,) +.Pp +This group can be used in +.Xr exports 5 +as follows: +.Pp +.Dl /home -maproot=nobody friends +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dbopen 3 , +.Xr getnetgrent 3 , +.Xr exports 5 , +.Xr netgroup_mkdb 8 +.Sh STANDARDS +The file format is compatible with that of various vendors, although it +appears that not all vendors use an identical format. +.Sh BUGS +The interpretation of access restrictions based on the member tuples of a +netgroup is left up to the various network applications. |
