[wplug] autofs + nis on debian

[John Harrold]

i installed debian (testing/unstable) on one of the computers in our lab to
prepare for the demise of redhat at the end of the month. i've got nis
setup and working. i can su to users and ypcat works for the different
files (passwd, auto.master, etc). however when i start autofs, it ignores
the files available through nis. the nsswitch.conf file has a lines like: 

passwd:         compat nis
group:          compat nis
shadow:         compat nis

automount:      compat nis 

for good measure i renamed the default /etc/auto.master file on the debian
computer, but that didn't seem to do anything. can someone tell me why
autofs wouldn't be getting the config files from the nis server?

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