Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FYI,
>
> I upgraded an x86 CentOS 4.5 client system (autofs-4.1.3-199.3) to CentOS
> 4.6 (autofs-4.1.3-231), no other changes, and autofs broke. Maps come from
> an LDAP server, for example:
>
> dn: cn=common,nisMapName=auto.xxx,dc=example,dc=org
> objectClass: nisObject
> cn: common
> nisMapName: auto.xxx
> nisMapEntry: server:/mnt/mda/data1/common -rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
>
> When attempting to automount this, the client is passing the mount path,
> _including the options_, to the server as the path to be mounted, and the
> server of course says "no such file and directory". This works on 4.5.
>
> If the nisMapEntry field is rewritten to put the options first:
>
> nisMapEntry: -rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 server:/mnt/mda/data1/common
>
> then it works on both versions of the OS. So something is less tolerant
> in parsing in 4.6.
>From autofs(5):
FORMAT
key [-options] location
It's not that the new version is less tolerant, it's that the new
version actually allows spaces in path names.
Cheers,
Jeff
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