[Freeipa-devel] automount in LDAP

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:49:57AM -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Is is similar but I'm using different attributes. The sample there is  
> mounting home directories which is a bit of a harder problem (requires  
> an entry for every user) and is using the cn and ou attributes. The  
> general format is the same.

If the per-user entries follow a pattern, you can use a wildcard entry
and the substitution character (&) to stand-in for the key in the
automountInformation attribute, which greatly reduces the size of the
map. The autofs(5) man page covers its use in a bit more depth.

HTH,

Nalin