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
