A library used to get groups or members of a netgroup NIS map. listgroup() without any parameters or listgroups() lists all the available netgroup groups. With groupname parameters listgroup, listgroup_user, listgroup_host will recusively list the members of the named groups. If the groupname is preceded with a - members of that group will be excluded from the returned list. Each member in a group is a triplet of (host,user,domain). The host portion or user portion of the members is returned by listgroup_host() and listgroup(), the user portion of the members is returned by listgroup_user().