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From: Patrick Crilly <crilly@ozy.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't login to NetBSD using YP
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 09:23:38 +1000
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> Don't do this. Use `vipw' to edit the master.passwd file, and add
> +::::::: (or whatever the right number of colons is) to the end of
> the file.

Did the trick.

thanks,
Patrick.