Home / server / Questions / 356610
Accepted
Mike
Asked: 2012-02-04 09:16:43 +0800 CST

Is AutoFS necessary?

  • 772

In Solaris 11, if I have a single system (NAS), with no other users other than myself, can I delete autofs mappings?

To me it seems confusing to have things in two separate folders (/export/home & /home). But what I really want to know if it will break anything important.

Thanks!

solaris autofs

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    No, it's not necessary. It's a throwback from the old Sun days when their motto was "The Network Is The Computer" - and thought that everyone would use NIS (or NIS+) and NFS home directories.

    If you're not using these then autofs can safely be turned off and /home returned to your control.

    Although disabling the service with svcadm should be enough, you might also want to edit /etc/auto_master and remove the entry for /home, just in case.

    • 0