[Bug 1081489] Re: autofs package is missing the lookup_sss.so module(!); negating autofs-enabled sssd functionality (automount fails)

[Robie Basak]

Ah, we have a catch. I apologise for not noticing this before.

I've verified that /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/sssd/modules/libsss_autofs.so is provided by sssd. So your patch
would require a new build dependency on sssd. However, sssd is in
universe, and autofs is in main, so we can't depend on it as this is not
permitted by policy (http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-
policy/policy.html/ch-archive.html#s-main).

The only solutions I'm aware of are to promote sssd to main or to demote
autofs to universe. The former is dependent on Canonical's agreement to
support it in main, and I'm not sure how the requirements weigh up in
this case (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements).

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

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  New
Status in “autofs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Brief:

  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'.

  Problem:

  The autofs pkg in Linux Mint 14 is missing the 'lookup_sss.so' module
  (which autofs uses to obtain the automount information from the System
  Security Services Daemon/sssd.) This means that the entire sssd
  integration with autofs is unable to function properly.

  Since this looks like an oversight; I am reporting this issue as a bug
  in the hope of a quick upstream fix. Naturally, the Mint 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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