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  r87238 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-14 11:20:53 -0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 7 lines

  #775964: skip YP/NIS entries instead of failing the test

  Also includes doc updates mentioning that these entries may not
  be retrievable via getgrnam and getgrgid.

  Patch by Bobby Impollonia.
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@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ correspond to the members of the ``group`` structure (Attribute field below, see
The gid is an integer, name and password are strings, and the member list is a
list of strings. (Note that most users are not explicitly listed as members of
the group they are in according to the password database. Check both databases
to get complete membership information.)
to get complete membership information. Also note that a ``gr_name`` that
starts with a ``+`` or ``-`` is likely to be a YP/NIS reference and may not be
accessible via :func:`getgrnam` or :func:`getgrgid`.)
It defines the following items: