Netgroups in the /etc/group File

[Tan Eu Soon]

Hi all,

I'd added the following lines in the /etc/passwd to deny users in the support netgroup access to my HP-UX11i server.

-@support
+::-2:60001:::

However, it didn't seems to work. Have I miss out any thing.

Thanks,
Eu Soon

[Ravi_8]

Hi

This entry in /etc/passwd works if you have NIS setup

[Tan Eu Soon]

Hi Ravi,

I do have a nis & netgroup setup. In fact, this setting works on my other solaris and linux machines but not HP-UX. That's why I thot I may have missed out something.

My nsswitch.conf are as follow:

passwd: files nis
group: files nis
netgroup: files nis

Regards,
Eu Soon

[Tan Eu Soon]

Sorry, the nsswitch.conf shld be:

passwd: compat
group: compat

[Tan Eu Soon]

Can somebody help.

Thanks and happy new year to all.

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

I think you have to to change

-@support

to

-@support::::::

Perhaps add dummy values for UID and GID like in the +:: line to make 'pwck' happy ...

mfG Peter

[Tan Eu Soon]

Thanks folks, I've managed to resolved it. The problem was caused by incorrect setting in the /etc/nsswitch.conf.