NAME

Net::NIS::Netgroup - Interface to glibc "getdomainname" function and its family

VERSION

Version 1.1

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::NIS::Netgroup;

 printf("Domain name is %s\n", getdomainname());
 setdomainname("newdom.com");

 printf("Is user in group? %d\n",
        innetgr('netgroup', 'host', 'user', 'domain'));

 my @result = listnetgr("some-netgroup");
 foreach my $r (@result) {
        printf("Found entry (%s, %s, %s)\n",
                $r->{host}, $r->{user}, $->{domain});
 }

 #
 # Return string representations instead of hashes: 2nd arg true
 #
 my @result2 = listnetgr("some-netgroup", 1);
 foreach my $r (@result2) {
        printf("Found entry %s\n", $r);
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module provides access methods for net groups. The following functions are offered:

getdomainname()

setdomainname($domain)

innetgr($group, $host, $user, $domain)

listnetgr($group [, $bool])

Detailed information about the three functions getgroupname, setdomainname, and innetgr can be found on the man pages of the respective glibc functions.

innetgr will happily take "undef" for one or more of its arguments, representing the same as a NULL pointer in the C equivalent.

The function listnetgr($group [, $bool]) uses the functions setnetgrent, getnetgrent, and endnetgrent to iterate over the members of a net group, returning a list of hash references

 {
        host => $host,
        user => $user,
        domain => $domain
 }

for all found elements. If the (optional) second argument to listnetgr is a true value, string representations (host,user,domain) of all entries are returned.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

All functions are exported per default. Use

 use Net::Nis::Netgroup ();

to not import the provided symbols.