Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
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

NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
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,

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Swen Thuemmler
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

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote: 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. Perhaps I should've pointed this out - that was one of the first things I tried. So now I have: -karl +::/bin/bash