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From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: +domainnames and netgroups
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 22 Mar 89 21:56:06 GMT
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Original-Date: 10 March 1989 0912-PST (Friday)
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 204, message 12 of 13

We're running sunos 4.0.1 on sun 4/280s.

We ran into a problem when we changed our yp domainname to start with a +
(to utilize the $m macro in sendmail.cf).  Users who were added to
/etc/passwd via a netgroup (+@netgroup) were no longer found (couldn't
login).

Our domainname was +nprdc.navy.mil.

Our netgroup looked like
trcf (-,stanonik,+nprdc.navy.mil) ...

Our passwd looked like
root:...
+@trcf:

stanonik couldn't login.

When we changed the netgroup to
trcf (-,stanonik,) ...

stanonik could login.

So, it appears that domainnames beginning with + trip up netgroup.  Maybe
it interprets the + as meaning do a further netgroup expansion?

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil