autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.177.0.1.AXS3

autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when you use them, and unmounts them later when you are not using them. This can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and so forth.

Security issues fixed with this release:

• CVE-2012-2697
Not available at the time of writing, please refer to the link below.

Fixed bugs:

• With slow servers or with many active mounts, the autofs init script could sometimes time out waiting for the automount daemon to exit and would report a shutdown failure. This has been fixed by increasing the amount of time the init scritpt waits for the daemon.

• Previously, autofs would try to download the entire LDAP map at startup. This has been fixed.

• Fixed a faulty logic test that caused automout to report false positive failures when checking the validity of a mount location.

• Automount sometimes used excessive CPU resources when trying to access invalid or non-existent keys. This has been fixed.

• Update the auto.master(5) man page with the "-t, --timeout" option in the FORMAT options section.

Enhancement:

• It is now possible to to configure separate timeout values for individual direct map entries in the autofs master map.