[Freeipa-devel] Tighter automount integration

[W. Michael Petullo]

I am interested in implementing tighter integration between automount  
(autofs) and FreeIPA.

There are instructions for using FreeIPA with automount at [1].  
However, this currently requires several manual steps.

I'd like to see this completely configurable using the FreeIPA GUI  
and/or install utility.

Should I add a new option to Manage Policy -> IPA Policy? Perhaps  
after "Root for Home Directories" should follow a checkbox,  
"Automount Home Directories," followed by a text field labeled  
"Location, e.g., servername:/home?" If checked, FreeIPA would  
initialize automount's LDAP records.

The only problem I see here is that it could cause confusion if a  
user checked this feature's box after a user's local home directory  
had already been created. In this case, his home would become  
unavailable because the remote home would be mounted over it.

Another option is to allow ipa-server-install to optionally  
initialize automount's LDAP records.

Does anyone have any comments on which technique would be preferable?

For reference, I have submitted a request to Red Hat's Bugzilla,  
asking that the automount schema be included in the fedora-ds-base  
package. See [2].

Mike

[1] http://freeipa.org/page/AdministratorsGuide#Configuring_automount
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441026