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Bug 1498443

Summary: AutoFS $host variable is replaced by the local hostname instead of the hostname of the server to be reached
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Davy Defaud <davy.defaud>
Component: autofsAssignee: Ian Kent <ikent>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Filesystem QE <fs-qe>
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Description Davy Defaud 2017-10-04 10:46:26 UTC
Since the update to CentOS 7.4 and autofs-5.0.7-69.el7, the special $host variable used in mount points is wrongly replaced by the local hostname instead of the remote server hostname hosting the shared filesystem to be mounted. All mounts using this $host variable were working perfectly with the previous release of autofs (5.0.7-56.el7).

Use case:
Content of /etc/auto.master.d/cifs.autofs:
/smb    /etc/autofs/auto.cifs

Content of /etc/autofs/auto.cifs:
* -fstype=autofs,-Dhost=& file:/etc/autofs/auto.cifs.sub

Content of /etc/autofs/auto.cifs.sub:
* -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/autofs/auto.cifs.${host}.secret,uid=${UID},gid=${GID},nounix,noserverino ://${host}/&

When I enable the debug mode, I can see that accessing to /smb/somesmbserver is now trying to mount the SMB shares of \\<myhostname> instead of \\somesmbserver.


Additional info:
Someone else has experienced the bug. See: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64309

Comment 2 Ian Kent 2017-10-04 11:39:33 UTC
I think this is a duplicate of bug 1497846.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1497846 ***

Comment 3 Davy Defaud 2017-10-04 12:08:54 UTC
Yes, indeed. It seems that I did not search enough for an existing bug report. Sorry.