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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-12-14 16:20:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-12-14 16:20:53 (GMT) |
| commit | ec07331eea496469165dc3be45fadbeab641e083 (patch) | |
| tree | 3961e67fea53d641e0aa587db146fb4ab40b623e /Doc/library/grp.rst | |
| parent | a80f4fb0481237e4ca4a9d9a57c52e0181b638f9 (diff) | |
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#775964: skip YP/NIS entries instead of failing the test
Also includes doc updates mentioning that these entries may not
be retrievable via getgrnam and getgrgid.
Patch by Bobby Impollonia.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/grp.rst b/Doc/library/grp.rst index 57f160a..8882140 100644 --- a/Doc/library/grp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/grp.rst @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ correspond to the members of the ``group`` structure (Attribute field below, see The gid is an integer, name and password are strings, and the member list is a list of strings. (Note that most users are not explicitly listed as members of the group they are in according to the password database. Check both databases -to get complete membership information.) +to get complete membership information. Also note that a ``gr_name`` that +starts with a ``+`` or ``-`` is likely to be a YP/NIS reference and may not be +accessible via :func:`getgrnam` or :func:`getgrgid`.) It defines the following items: |