Hi,
 
My original posting:
> Does anyone know a way to load auto_home NIS+ map from a NIS map or ascii file?
> 
> The 'nisaddent' utility allows only for aliases, bootparams, ethers, 
> group, hosts, netid, netmasks,  networks,  passwd,  protocols,  publickey,
> rpc,  services, shadow, or timezone  but not for auto_home.
1-
You need to use a slightly different syntax to populate an automount
map. It's in TFM, but not very clearly.
Use this:
nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value
I usually use:
echo "$entry" | /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value
or
cat auto_home_file | /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -t auto_home.org_dir key-value
2-
I sued awk with nistbladm and Answerbook!! ;-)
nisaddent is just a hacky way of using nistbladm anyway!  You CAN add mount 
options for auto_home and auto_master NIS+ maps.  You just add them to the
"value" field.  There is no "generic" support for automount maps via the
nisaddent command, I don't know why!  It's just the old key/value pair known
and loved by NISers all over the globe.
Thanks to all who responded:
Leslie Dreyer Kalra	lbd@mhcnet.att.com
Robert P K Lyle		rlyle@nl.oracle.com
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