I agree that autofs-5.0.8, now in Debian unstable, is clearly broken. Looking in what appears to be an upstream location ( https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/), I see evidence of active, on-going development. There is not only an upstream version 5.0.9 that is mentioned in a previous post about the present bug but also an upstream version 5.0.10, as well as what looks like a 5.1.x branch.
Both 5.0.10 and 5.1.1 seem to have been made available in 2014 Oct, just last month as I write this. Are these hopelessly broken, too? It seems as though an update to 5.0.10 might be in order. What am I missing? On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > 16.11.2014 00:29, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:23:40 +0300 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru > <mailto:m...@tls.msk.ru>> wrote: > >> > >> Sure, why not -- is `important' enough? I'd like to make it RC > >> so autofs is removed from debian finally, as it is just too > >> broken > > . > > > > If autofs might be removed from Debian, then I have a question. > > > > Is there a different, less buggy package that I could install to get the > same effect? > > > > What is the best practice? > > > > I have one machine at home with accounts for my wife and kids. > > > > I export the passwd file via nis. > > > > I have another machine that they like to log into and still magically > see all their stuff. > > > > How do I easily accomplish this in another way, without having to set up > a bunch links and other brittle config on the non-master machine? > > I for one don't know a way to do this. There used to be amd (automount > deaemon), > but it looks like it is not mantained anymore. There was autofs, but it > is broken. > > Thanks, > > /mjt > > -- Thomas E. Vaughan
