Re: NIS documentation wrong?

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

At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote:
>> 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

Just a follow up note: this actually DISABLES the login (just says login
incorrect all the time) but the finger information remains.

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