[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2022-03-13 Thread Irit Katriel
Irit Katriel added the comment: nis is deprecated as per PEP 594, so there won't be further enhancements to it. -- nosy: +iritkatriel resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2019-04-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2014-09-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I think this should be an enhancement request. -- components: +Library (Lib) -None nosy: +BreamoreBoy, jcea type: behavior -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2010-06-09 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is this really a bug (discrepancy between nis.cat doc and behavior) or a feature request? -- nosy: +tjreedy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2008-03-19 Thread Sean Reifschneider
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[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2008-02-20 Thread Ernst Persson
Ernst Persson added the comment: Here's another description of the issue: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/maps.html#AEN548 There's a suggestion to have different group-names but same gids, but automatic splitters of nis-groups doesn't allways do this. Right, grp.getgrall() returns a list, t

[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can you dig up some specification for that behaviour? The more official, the better. Otherwise, I'd rather add an option to return a list instead of a dict; people wanting that semantics could then do their own processing. -- nosy: +loewis ___

[issue2148] nis module not supporting group aliases

2008-02-20 Thread Ernst Persson
New submission from Ernst Persson: Nis (applications?) has a line limit in the "group" entry, so you can't have very long lines (=many users) The way to solve this is to put aliases in the group map, like this: MY_GROUP::123:user1,user2 MY_GROUP::123:user3,user4 This is supported by the OS, grp