.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" @(#)netgroup.5 8.1 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd defines network groups
specifies ``netgroups'', which are sets of
tuples that are to be given similar network access.
consists of a netgroup name followed by a list of the members of the
Each member can be either the name of another netgroup or a specification
.Bd -literal -offset indent
are character string names for the corresponding component.
Any of the comma separated fields may be empty to specify a ``wildcard'' value
or may consist of the string ``-'' to specify ``no valid value''.
The members of the list may be separated by whitespace and/or commas;
the ``\e'' character may be used at the end of a line to specify
The functions specified in
should normally be used to access the
Lines that begin with a # are treated as comments.
.Bl -tag -width /etc/netgroup -compact
The file format is compatible with that of various vendors, however it
appears that not all vendors use an identical format.
The interpretation of access restrictions based of the member tuples of a
netgroup is left up to the various network applications.
Also, it is not obvious how the domain specification
applies to the BSD environment.