Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!lgy From: lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: /etc/netgroup and /etc/exports Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 01:32:50 GMT References: <2365@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <2851@spim.mips.COM> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 25 trevc@tecate.mips.com (Trevor Cotton) writes: >I use the /etc/netgroup file here. >Your problem may well be that you have groups of groups. This is only >allowed if you are using NIS. When using the file itself, group entries >can only contain (host, user, domain) triplets. >( the manpage for netgroup really only applies to NIS, hence the ORIGIN >statement ) >The basic rules that apply when using the netgroup file 'as is' are >entries can ONLY contain ( host, user, domain ) triplets >there is a maximum limit of 4096 characters per line >the line continuation character ( \ ) is NOT allowed. In addition to the restrictions Trevor mentions, it appears that using NIS-supplied netgroups in "access=" entries in /etc/exports simply doesn't work under 4.52. MIPS' customer support has told me "wait until 5.0 (later this year)". If anyone has a more immediate work-around (which retains using NIS supplied netgroups) I'd like to hear about it. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet