Re: Horrible denial of service bug in autmount 5

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

J.P. King wrote:
> 
> As I said previously, because this is quite hard.  The maps need to be 
> changed by the login process.  We currently do this in the PAM 
> configuration.  Given that we can have multiple log in at the same time 
> this means we need to do a lot of careful locking.
> 
> Ideally we would do something like include all the files from a 
> configuration directory and have a HUP get it to re-read all these 
> configuration snippets.  This would be a relatively involved change 
> however.
> 

This sounds like a perfect use of an executable map to me.  I don't know 
exactly what your maps look like, but it seems to me that since you have 
an unusual local requirement it would make sense to deal with it in a 
manner external to autofs itself.

	-hpa