[Freeipa-devel] Design discussion: autofs integration

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:48 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > 
> > One thing I dislike about the discussion, and while I let it pass in
> > bugs and mailing list discussions, I think it is wrong to put it in
> > public design documents. The statement "autofs abuses the nsswitch.conf
> > configuration file" I find a little offensive. autofs uses that
> > configuration file and parses only the "automount" entry using the same
> > semantic behavior as nss, so the word "abuse" is wrong and a little rude
> > IMHO.
> 
> I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to offend you and perhaps abuse was a strong
> word. I've changed the design docs.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm happy for people to say what they think
within mailing list discussions and, to a lesser extent, within bug
discussions, but in a web presented design document a little more care
really should be taken IMHO.

Ian