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nis module not supporting group aliases #46401
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Nis (applications?) has a line limit in the "group" entry, so you can't This is supported by the OS, grp.getgrall(), etc, but I guess the best thing if you want to return a dict is to merge the |
Can you dig up some specification for that behaviour? The more official, Otherwise, I'd rather add an option to return a list instead of a dict; |
Here's another description of the issue: Right, grp.getgrall() returns a list, that's why it works. |
Is this really a bug (discrepancy between nis.cat doc and behavior) or a feature request? |
I think this should be an enhancement request. |
nis is deprecated as per PEP-594, so there won't be further enhancements to it. |
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