Re: Patch: netgrp can't handle splitted NIS groups

Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:31:58 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 08, Christian Mudra wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I found out, that newgrp doesn't handle splitted NIS groups correctly.
>> I've checked several implementations of newgrp (shadow, util-linux and
>> opensolaris), but didn't have success finding a 'good' one. It's interesting,
>> that only the newgroup of AIX (I tested AIX-5.1) takes care of splitted NIS
>> groups and handles them correctly.
>
> This is not correct, there are other Implementations for Linux, which
> also support this "hack" like pwdutils.

So conclution: "this patch is correct in sense NIS specyfication" is 
correct ?

kloczek
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