On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:53 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:13 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > > because of the discussion on auto home via LDAP, I thought I would try
> > > > to implement...
> > > > 
> > > > according to here...
> > > > https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Deployment_Guide/s2-nfs-config-autofs-LDAP.html
> > 
> > Also be aware that there is a problem with the RHEL 5.1 kernel and you
> > will need to either update to revision 55.el5 or the z-stream revision
> > 53.1.3.el5 or above or or apply the patch referred to in bug
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371341.
> > 
> > Ummm .. I think that's about it.
> > I bet I've made some mistakes or left something out.
> > Anyway, have a try and let me know how you go.
> ----
> OK feeding back...(this is a Fedora 8 client)
> # rpm -q autofs
> autofs-5.0.2-16.x86_64
> # uname -a
> Linux dell-320-3.tobyhouse.com 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 22:14:09
> EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> server is RHEL
> # uname -a
> Linux srv1.tobyhouse.com 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 4 22:15:13 EDT
> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Temporarily using standard autofs to demonstrate (Fedora)...
> 
> tail -n 1 /etc/auto.master
> /home/storage           /etc/auto.misc
> 
> tail -n 2 /etc/auto.misc
> users                -fstype=nfs srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/users
> files                -fstype=nfs srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/files
> 
> # grep automount /etc/nsswitch.conf
> automount:  files ldap
> 
> autofs nfs mounts work fine.
> 
> now commenting out those above lines in /etc/auto.master
> and /etc/auto.misc (but leaving /etc/nsswitch.conf alone)
> 
> adding to /etc/ldap.conf
> # grep automount /etc/ldap.conf
> nss_base_automount     \
> automountmapname=auto.master,dc=tobyhouse,dc=com?sub
> 
> non-commented lines in /etc/sysconfig/autofs
> DEFAULT_MAP_OBJECT_CLASS="automountMap"
> DEFAULT_ENTRY_OBJECT_CLASS="automount"
> DEFAULT_MAP_ATTRIBUTE="automountMapName"
> DEFAULT_ENTRY_ATTRIBUTE="automountKey"
> DEFAULT_VALUE_ATTRIBUTE="automountInformation"
> AUTH_CONF_FILE="/etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf"
> 
> Then restart autofs and...
> 
> doing ldapsearch from fedora 8 client seeking to automount (and
> deliberately leaving off command line items to demonstrate accuracy
> of /etc/openldap/ldap.conf)
> 
> # ldapsearch -x '(objectclass=automount)'
> ...some clippage...
> # /home/storage, auto.master, tobyhouse.com
> dn:
> description=/home/storage,automountMapName=auto.master,dc=tobyhouse,dc=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: auto.home
> automountKey: /home/storage
> description: /home/storage
> 
> # users, auto.home, tobyhouse.com
> dn: automountKey=users,automountMapName=auto.home,dc=tobyhouse,dc=com
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/users
> automountKey: users
> 
> # files, auto.misc, tobyhouse.com
> dn: automountKey=files,automountMapName=auto.misc,dc=tobyhouse,dc=com
> objectClass: automount
> automountKey: files
> automountInformation: srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/files
> 
> # /home/storage/files, auto.master, tobyhouse.com
> dn:
> description=/home/storage/files,automountMapName=auto.master,dc=tobyhouse,
>  dc=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: auto.misc
> description: /home/storage/files
> automountKey: users
> 
> # /home/storage/users, auto.home, tobyhouse.com
> dn:
> automountKey=/home/storage/users,automountMapName=auto.home,dc=tobyhouse,d
>  c=com
> automountInformation: srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/users
> automountKey: /home/storage/users
> objectClass: automount
> 
> # /home/storage/files, auto.misc, tobyhouse.com
> dn:
> automountKey=/home/storage/files,automountMapName=auto.misc,dc=tobyhouse,d
>  c=com
> automountInformation: srv1.tobyhouse.com:/home/storage/files
> automountKey: /home/storage/files
> objectClass: automount
> 
> but autofs mounts never work
> 
> ;-)
> 
> perhaps it is not meant to be
----
I am able to make autofs work the 'old way' via LDAP

I will probably just leave it there.

Thanks

Craig

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