Original posting (in a nutshell):
> Do you have to be running NIS in order to use the -access=netgroup option
> in /etc/exports ?
quick answer: YES !!
But...
Several people mentioned that that it can be made to work without NIS
by patching some of the shared system libraries. I think that I can make
do without tampering with system libraries, but thanks for the info.
Thanks to:
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
frankm@shadow.cna.tek.com (Frank 'Scruff' Miller)
era@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU (Ed Arnold)
trinkle@cs.purdue.edu (Daniel Trinkle)
phil@pex.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
montjoy@thor.ece.uc.EDU (Robert Montjoy)
phillips@herbie.qualcomm.com (Marc Phillips)
ups!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM Glenn Satchell
Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk
barmar@think.com Barry Margolin
lidl@uunet.uu.net (Kurt J. Lidl)
and anyone else I may have forgotten...
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