Re: Purely LDAP-based Automounts

["Michael Lackner" <michael.lackner@unileoben.ac.at>]

Hello!

> But, there is no reason for autofs to mount any "real" mount points when
> you restart autofs, they should only be mounted (and thus you will see the
> ldap searches from autofs in the logs) when accessed.

I now, just how autofs always works. But when i try to access the directory,
it isn't there, as if i would have set it up with auto.master and, for instance,
auto.home.

When trying to set automount to "files ldap" in nsswitch.conf and adding the
line "/home ldap:193.171.81.222:ou=auto.home,o=ait,c=com" autofs creates
the directory "/home", but it doesn't automount "test" within this dir when
trying to access via cd.

No ldap searches in the syslog...

LDAP itself works, user authentication ok.

Thanks.

MfG,
Michael Lackner
--
Montanuniversität Leoben
Institut für angewandte Mathematik und Geometrie
Abteilung für Informationstechnologie, IT-Administration
michael.lackner@unileoben.ac.at  |  +43 (0)3842/402-1505
http://www.hardoverclock.com | thrawn@hardoverclock.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>
To: "Michael Lackner" <michael.lackner@unileoben.ac.at>
Cc: <OpenLDAP-Software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Purely LDAP-based Automounts


> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Michael Lackner wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've got my OpenLDAP Server readily set up on RedHat9 now.  It's OpenLDAP 2.0.27-8.
> > What I'm now trying to achieve is purely LDAP-based automounting of user's home directories.
> >
> > I don't want to use /etc/auto.master at all, so i set the automounter to "ldap" in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> > ####
> > automount:  ldap
> > ####
> > auto.master has been renamed to be totally sure of this.
> >
> > I'm trying to export the following directory, as you will see in my LDIF files:
> > /etc/exports:
> > ####
> > /exports/home 193.171.81.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
> > ####
> >
> > Manually mounting the directories within /exports/home succeeds.
> >
> > So, the hairy part seem to be the LDIF files / the data within the directory database. I tried to
> > test this on my testserver with a user called "testuser" and with user root, using autofs 3.1.7-36.
> >
> > LDIF Data:
> > ####
> > dn: ou=auto.master,o=ait,c=com
> > objectClass: top
> > objectClass: automountMap
> > ou: auto.master
> > ####
> >
> > ####
> > dn: cn=/home,ou=auto.master,o=ait,c=com
> > objectClass: automount
> > cn: /home
> > automountInformation: ldap 193.171.81.222:ou=auto.home,o=ait,c=com
> > ####
> >
> > ####
> > dn: ou=auto.home,o=ait,c=com
> > objectClass: top
> > objectClass: automountMap
> > ou: auto.home
> > ####
> >
> > ####
> > dn: cn=test,ou=auto.home,o=ait,c=com
> > objectClass: automount
> > cn: test
> > automountInformation: -fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev 193.171.81.222:/exports/home/testuser
> > ####
> >
> > As you can see, "o=ait,c=com" is the base DN. 193.171.81.222 is the IP of my OpenLDAP
> > and NFS server.
> >
> > When i run "service autofs status" on my client, i can see a directory "/home" being configured
> > for automounting, nothing else, but this isn't what i intended. I want autofs to automount
> > the directory "test" within "/home" of course ("/home/test" being the homedir of "testuser").
>
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>
>