Out of curiousity, where does such functionality exist in the 
source tree? I would have thought it would be in 
lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c, but I can't find anything that would 
expand a netgroup out...

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:10:19 -0700 Jason R Thorpe 
<thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:03:31AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
>  > Excuse me if I understand this wrong but... how do you use netgroup
>  > to do what /etc/group does? I know netgroup for NFS, but file permissions?
> 
> In netgroups, you can list users, groups, and other netgroups.
> 
> Then for the group in /etc/group, you would say:
> 
> foo: +@foogroup
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
> 

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