I didn't want to submit a bug until I know a bit more about this issue.

We use pdsh here quite a bit.  Our systems (200+) are on SciLinux 6.6, 
6.7, 7.1 and 7.2.  We're just about finished transitioning from an old 
NIS setup to FreeIPA (4.2.0-15) and have noticed that the netgroups 
defined in FreeIPA aren't being seen in pdsh.

For instance, I've defined four hostgroups linux_af, linux_gm, linux_ns 
and linux_tz.  Hosts are put into one of those according to the first 
letter of the hostname.  I've also defined a netgroup, all_linux, that 
combines those four host groups into one netgroup.

If I run "pdsh -l root -g linux_af" it works just fine.  But running 
"pdsh -l root -g all_linux" I get this:

[root@host ~]# pdsh -l root -g all_linux
pdsh@host: no remote hosts specified

That system is on SL6.7 with pdsh-2.26-4.el6.x86_64, 
pdsh-rcmd-ssh-2.26-4.el6.x86_64 and pdsh-mod-netgroup-2.26-4.el6.x86_64 
installed.  I tried from a SL7.2 system with the same packages but 
version 2.31-1 installed and got the same results.

On a Fedora 23 system, using 2.31-4, everything seems to work just fine 
with both the hostgroup and the netgroup.

Is this something that I should report as a bug, or is it just the 
expected behaviors from those different versions of pdsh?

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Stephen Berg
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