revnetgroup

REVNETGROUP(8)                 Reference Manual                 REVNETGROUP(8)



NAME
       revnetgroup - generate reverse netgroup data

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/yp/revnetgroup [-u|-h]

DESCRIPTION
       Revnetgroup  processes  the  standard  input in netgroup(5) format into
       what is called reverse netgroup form. That is, where the original  file
       shows  netgroup  memberships in terms of which members reside in a par-
       ticular group, the reverse netgroup format specifies  what  groups  are
       associated with a particular member. This information is used to gener-
       ate the netgroup.byuser and netgroup.byhosts NIS  maps.  These  reverse
       netgroup  maps are used to help speed up netgroup lookups, particularly
       for the innetgr library function.

       The revnetgroup command prints its results on the standard  output.  It
       is usually called only by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS net-
       group maps.

OPTIONS
       The revnetgroup command supports the following options:

       -u     Generate netgroup.byuser output; only  username  information  in
              the original netgroup file is processed.

       -h     Generate  netgroup.byhost  output;  only hostname information in
              the original netgroup file is processed.

       Note at least one of the both flags must be specified.

FILES
       /var/yp/Makefile    The Makefile to build the NIS databases
       /etc/netgroup       the default netgroup database file.  This  file  is
                           most often found only on the NIS master server

SEE ALSO
       getnetgrent(3), netgroup(5),

AUTHOR
       revnetgroup was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.



YP Server                         August 2001                   REVNETGROUP(8)