diff --git a/filesystem/autofs/autofs.conf b/filesystem/autofs/autofs.conf
index 57be49232..2e0683917 100644
--- a/filesystem/autofs/autofs.conf
+++ b/filesystem/autofs/autofs.conf
@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@ hook_add prepatch 5 'pkg_autofs_prepatch'
 if pkginstalled openldap; then
 	var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' "-I$root$( pkgprefix includedir openldap )"
 fi
+
+# set sysconfdir to '/etc/autofs' in the case it was auto-configured to '/etc'
+[ "$sysconfdir" = "$root/etc" ] && \
+	sysconfdir=$root/etc/autofs