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

[martin]

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.

[martin (martin-andersen)]

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.

[Brian Topping (topping)]

This bug seems to be resolved.