NIS documentation wrong?

[Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au>]

Hi.

It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I
take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93
in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this.  The following two
lines are in my /etc/passwd file:

+::::::/bin/bash
-karl

However, here's a finer:

[root@merope:p1:~] finger karl
Login: karl                             Name:
Directory: /home/time                   Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.

This shouldn't be the case, should it?

Can someone tell me what I'm supposidly doing wrong?

Regards

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