Re: NIS documentation wrong?

[Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:

> 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

[...]

You must reverse the lines. The pw routines will stop when a name is
found, so -karl is useless when there is a + preceding it.

Greetings, Swen