On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:43:46PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> chfn blows away a user's password when NIS is running.

To clarify, I should say that the second field of the password file is
filled with an asterisk, not emptied entirely.

So, the result:

mason:*:123:456:...

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