Bug#6798: libc6: hosts.equiv netgroup support issues
Since it seems that netgroups in /etc/hosts.equiv haven't worked since
1997, and since NIS is anyway a security risk, and further since ssh can
do these things in better ways, it seems to me that fixing the bug by
adjusting the documentation to mention that "+@foo" is not, in fact,
supported on Debian would be sufficient. Of course, since I've never
adminstered NIS, I may have a distorted view of how useful or useless it
is.
I have found two places where this would need to be mentioned: in
hosts.equiv(5) and sshd(8). There may be others, of course, but I only
found these. Would adding words like "In Debian, netgroups
in /etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/shosts.equiv are not supported." be good
enough?
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