[Bug 488696] Re: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Currently autofs falls back to reading it's own configuration files, if the parser did not find automount stanza.
The problem is that the current autofs' parser fails on the default nsswitch.conf
See: lib/nss_parse.y

Options are:
1) change default nsswitch.conf (not gonna happen see comment #18, see comment #20 for history which, well, mattered in the past)
2) remove autofs nsswitch.conf parser (not ideal, breaks compatibility with other distros & history see comment #20)
3) fix autofs nsswitch.conf parser
4) make autofs use something that knows how to parse nsswitch.conf properly

I personally would prefer solution #3 and send the patch to debian &
upstream. Unfortunately I do not know Yacc to even understand what
./lib/nss_parse.y is doing.

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