[Bug 1080609] Re: autofs package is missing the lookup_sss.so module; negating autofs-enabled sssd functionality (automount fails)

[martin]

Any news on this?

This functionality is critical for the use of Ubuntu in our
organization. Since the autofs integration is already present in sssd
1.9.1, it should not be a big task to have the autofs package provide
the lookup_sss.so module. It is only a matter of recompiling the autofs
package.

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Title:
  autofs package is missing the lookup_sss.so module; negating autofs-
  enabled sssd functionality (automount fails)

Status in “autofs” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Hi,

  We are running an environment where users' home directories are
  automounted based on information stored in an LDAP db.  To avoid
  double-lookups (and increase performance and stability), we use the
  sssd daemon to cache login and automount information. I.e, the
  /etc/nsswitch.conf has 'automount: sss' as opposed to 'automount:
  ldap'.

  With other distros this is not an issue, but for some reason the
  autofs pkg in Ubuntu (we're on 12.10/Quantal Quetzal) is missing the
  'lookup_sss.so' module which autofs uses to obtain the automount
  information from the System Security Services Daemon/sssd.

  Since this looks like an oversight; I am reporting this issue as a bug
  in the hope of a quick fix. Naturally, the Ubuntu installation is not
  working very well without this functionality in place and maintaining
  custom packages for this task is not a good option.

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