Why does netgroup resolutions stop If there is a member netgroup in the netgroup which is empty in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
Issue
- If there is a member netgroup in the netgroup which is empty, resolving netgroup stops at this group only. It ignores all group entries after that.
]# cat /etc/netgroup
test-users-all test-users-a test-users-b test-users-c (,userall,)
test-users-a (,usera,)
test-users-b
test-users-c (,userc,)
]# getent -s files netgroup test-users-all
test-users-all ( ,userall,) ( ,userc,)
- expected result:
test-users-all ( ,userall,) ( ,userc,) (,usera,)
- Removing empty netgroup or keeping empty netgroup to the leftest on line results in proper resolving:
]# cat /etc/netgroup
test-users-all test-users-b test-users-a test-users-c (,userall,)
test-users-a (,usera,)
test-users-c (,userc,)
test-users-b
]# getent -s files netgroup test-users-all
test-users-all ( ,userall,) ( ,userc,) ( ,usera,)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
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