root on Mon 5/02 14:38 -0500:
> My company just converted its automount maps to NIS on a Solaris 8
> server. While I had autofs working local maps, I cannot get it to work
> with NIS. I am running Redhat 6.2 with autofs 3.1.5.
>
> for /etc/auto_master I have ...
> +auto.master
>
> for /etc/auto_home I have ...
> +auto.home
Linux' autofs doesn't do included maps (+) and also doesn't do direct
maps (only indirect ones). In the repeated words of HPA, something like
"[this is a horribly designed Sun kludge and will never, ever, be
supported. Ever. Period. Full stop.]"
IMHO, this is a *really* poor decision from the perspective of
interoperability, but perhaps not from that of engineering.
In any case, it's not going to happen.
