NIS+ automount map

2007-12-25 8:26:00

Hi,

My original posting:

> Does anyone know a way to load auto_home NIS+ map from a NIS map or ascii file?

> The 'nisaddent' utility allows only for aliases, bootparams, ethers,

> group, hosts, netid, netmasks, networks, passwd, protocols, publickey,

> rpc, services, shadow, or timezone but not for auto_home.

You need to use a slightly different syntax to populate an automount

map. It's in TFM, but not very clearly.

Use this:

nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value

I usually use:

echo "$entry" | /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value

cat auto_home_file | /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value

I sued awk with nistbladm and Answerbook!! ;-)

nisaddent is just a hacky way of using nistbladm anyway! You CAN add mount

options for auto_home and auto_master NIS+ maps. You just add them to the

"value" field. There is no "generic" support for automount maps via the

nisaddent command, I don't know why! It's just the old key/value pair known

and loved by NISers all over the globe.

Thanks to all who responded:

Leslie Dreyer Kalra lbd@mhcnet.att.com

Jean-Francois THOREL Etudes et Productions SCHLUMBERGER

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