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Description of problem:
In our enterprise we have Boston and San Diego home directories using /u/.  In
Boston /u has the local homedirs and /remote/u has the remote
ones.  If /remote/u appears first in NIS then the grep in autofs Line 159 causes
/remote/u and /u to match (the second is substring of first).  The grep command
should be enhanced to ...grep '\<'$dir/ to emphasize a word boundary in the pattern.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a mount point /testing/user
2. Create second mount point of /user
3. Execute /etc/init.d/autofs start and /user will not show up.
4. Make my suggested fix from Description above.
5. /etc/init.d/autofs restart and mount point works fine now.
	

Actual Results:  The problem was solved.  It is simple to detect through the
shell script print options, provided you have the right circumstance.
This will definately effect large enterprises (like mine :) ).

Expected Results:  Second mount (/u) should appear naturally per out NIS
auto.master entries.

Additional info:

This, highly specialized, bug is reproducable in RedHat 7.1 and
probably beyond...  The fix/workaround is relatively simple per
the last line of the description above.