| NETGROUP(5) | File Formats Manual | NETGROUP(5) | 
netgroup —
| netgroup | 
netgroup file specifies “netgroups”,
  which are sets of (host, user, domain) tuples that are to be
  given similar network access.
Each line in the file consists of a netgroup name followed by a list of the members of the netgroup. Each member can be either the name of another netgroup or a specification of a tuple as follows:
(host, user, domain)
where the host, user, and
    domain 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; the
    “\” character may be used at the end of a line to specify line
    continuation. The functions specified in
    getnetgrent(3) should
    normally be used to access the netgroup
  database.
If ‘files’ is specified for the
    ‘netgroup’ database in
    nsswitch.conf(5), (or
    no ‘netgroup’ entry is specified), then these functions
    operate on the db(3) version of
    the netgroup (netgroup.db)
    file which can be generated using
    netgroup_mkdb(8). If
    ‘nis’ is specified then the NIS maps ‘netgroup’,
    ‘netgroup.byhost’, and ‘netgroup.byuser’ are
    used.
Lines that begin with a # are treated as comments.
| January 16, 1999 | NetBSD 10.1 |