[Bug 297378] Re: "+"-included entries in auto.home

[Shane Dixon]

I resolved this by upgrading to autofs5, which seems to respect the "+"
in the /etc/passwd and other NIS files


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Shane Dixon
Linux Engineer
Atmel Corporation 

-----Original Message-----
From: bounces at canonical.com [mailto:bounces at canonical.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Short
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:58 AM
To: Dixon, Shane
Subject: [Bug 297378] Re: "+"-included entries in auto.home

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** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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"+"-included entries in auto.home
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Status in "autofs" package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: autofs

I have the following configuration that works on a CentOS 4 machine, but
not in Ubuntu.

Inside the file /etc/auto.master:
/home  file:/etc/auto.home  --ghost

Inside the file /etc/auto.home:
localuser  -rw,soft,intr  :/home.local:&
+auto.company_home

The "auto.company_home" share in NIS:
<snip>
localhost -rw,soft,intr server:/home.local:& <snip>

The purpose is to have the localuser's home folder get overridden on
just ONE machine and work with the defaults on all the other machines.
This configuration works in CentOS:

CentOS  automount version 4.1.3-234
Ubuntu   automount version 4.1.4

The configurations are identical.  I've read that + entries work in the
auto.master, but do they not work in other files?  The result of the
above configuration will show the local /etc/auto.home entries, but all
the NIS auto.company_home entries are absent.

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