In addition to the features mentioned by Jeremy Fitzhardinge, it would
be useful in a Solaris environment to allow entries from
/etc/auto_home to be used together with entries from a NIS+ auto_home
table. This is commonly done by having an /etc/auto_home which looks
like
# Home directory map for automounter, +auto_home is NIS+ table
+auto_home
userid host:/path
As far as I can tell, the only way to get such a feature in autofs is
to make /etc/auto_home an executable script that does the necessary
lookups in an /etc/ file and in the NIS+ table.
Unrelated: the current /etc/init.d/autofs script delivered with Debian
is broken in that an auto.master entry of the form
/home nisplus auto_home
will lead to a "automount yp..." call. The script delivered with the
autofs sources works.
I joined the list a few days ago. Be gentle...
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--Darrel Hankerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
