David Walser wrote:
> Problem:
> Even if you don't have nis in the automount: line in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, automount uses NIS.

This is standard behavior. (NIS on Solaris and other Unix's do this)

This way one can have a nis server export an auto.master file so one 
doesn't have to modify every client machine on the network when a change 
to the auto.master file happens.

If your nis server does not export an auto.master file then you won't 
have a problem. If it does, but you need a different auto.master file 
for your autofs on linux, then remove nis and nisplus from 
nsswitch.conf. Autofs will still work with nis/nisplus/yp maps but it 
will not autoload the auto.master from your nis server.

This should not be changed, then nis on linux would be further different 
from other unix's.

> Reason:
> in /etc/init.d/autofs function getrawmounts() on line
> 121 you see:
> nis*|yp)
> 
> which doesn't distinguish between nis and nisplus
> (script is probably being lazy, because later when it
> does the ypcat, it doesn't make a difference).  I'm
> not sure what you could do to tell whether you're
> connected to NIS or NIS+, but if there's something,
> the script should do that and be smarter about what it
> does.
> 
> Since you (Juan) probably didn't write this script, if
> you want me to report this somewhere else, just let me know.
> 
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