H. Peter Anvin on Tue 29/02 13:02 -0800:
> The existing implementation works just fine and dandy with NIS.
> That's what we use at Transmeta. It's just the Sun brain-damaged way
> of *ASKING* for an NIS map in a local file that's the problem.
I think this conversation started as a result of the sed string changing
underscores to dots.
The default sun /etc/auto_master looks like this:
+auto_master
/net -hosts -nosuid
/home auto_home
/xfn -xfn
I believe it used to be auto.master but they switched to using dots
instead when they moved to NIS+ for some unknown reason (I've never used
plus, just YP)
On the Linux clients without an /etc/auto.master, it looks up the YP
auto.master map. This map contains an `auto_home' entry. The sed script
changes this into `auto.home'. `auto.home' contains only `+auto_home'.
Linux autofs doesn't support included maps, so this ends up doing
nothing. If the sed string wasn't there to begin with, it would have
just included auto_home and everything would have been fine.
This seems to me to be basically the Sun default setup, and it works
fine here with IRIX, HP-UX, and of course, Sun. But the Linux clients
break unless I remove the sed string.
What is the reason for having auto.home and auto_home ? What is the
historical difference between the two? How does it relate to NIS+ ?
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