On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes! The patch works! Thank you.
> 
> Will this be included in the next revision of autofs?

Recon so, I'll commit it now.

> 
> Cheers,
> Anthony
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 19:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Greetings:
> >>
> >> My NIS auto.net has an entry that looks similar to:
> >>
> >>    my_dir -fstype=fuse,reconnect,allow_other [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/my_dir
> >>
> >> It works fine with CentOS 4 x86, x86_64 and ia64 distributions using 
> >> autofs4.
> >> I
> >> installed CentOS 5 x86_64 which uses autofs5 and this NIS mount failed.
> >>
> >> Note: In order to allow NIS to properly provide the auto.net entry, I 
> >> needed
> >> to
> >> make a minor change to the /var/yp/Makefile to allow '#' in the NIS 
> >> database.
> >>
> >> The 'automount -v -d' reports in /var/messages something like:
> >>
> >>    Jun  8 19:02:23 c1 automount[27076]: attempting to mount entry 
> >> /net/my_dir
> >>    Jun  8 19:02:24 c1 automount[27076]: parse_mount: parse(sun): invalid
> >> location
> >>    Jun  8 19:02:24 c1 automount[27076]: failed to mount /net/my_dir
> >>
> >>
> >> Does autofs-5.0.1/modules/parse_sun.c 'validate_location' function need to
> >> allow the '#' to get this working again? If it's something simple like 
> >> this,
> >> would it be possible to add this to the next release?
> >
> > Can you verify that this patch does the trick please.
> >
> > diff --git a/modules/parse_sun.c b/modules/parse_sun.c
> > index 99961c3..5e14c75 100644
> > --- a/modules/parse_sun.c
> > +++ b/modules/parse_sun.c
> > @@ -762,12 +762,17 @@ static int validate_location(char *loc)
> >     if (*ptr == ':')
> >             return 1;
> >
> > -   /* If a ':' is present now it must be a host name */
> > +   /*
> > +    * If a ':' is present now it must be a host name, except
> > +    * for those special file systems like sshfs which use "#"
> > +    * and "@" in the host name part.
> > +    */
> >     if (check_colon(ptr)) {
> >             while (*ptr && *ptr != ':') {
> >                     if (!(isalnum(*ptr) ||
> >                         *ptr == '-' || *ptr == '.' || *ptr == '_' ||
> > -                       *ptr == ',' || *ptr == '(' || *ptr == ')'))
> > +                       *ptr == ',' || *ptr == '(' || *ptr == ')' ||
> > +                       *ptr == '#' || *ptr == '@'))
> >                             return 0;
> >                     ptr++;
> >             }
> >
> 

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