[Freeipa-devel] Tighter automount integration

[Dmitri Pal]

Hi Michael,

I am not an automount expert but we plan to have a tighter integration 
of the automount data with IPA.  It will be done in IPA v2 we are 
currently working on.
In v2 the UI is completely rewritten using a new extensible plugin based 
architecture framework so modifying v1 UI would be a lost work.
We are on the verge of making the first cut of this framework and 
corresponding documentation public.
So stay tuned. There will be announcement on the list.
What would be helpful is a set of scripts that would pre-populate this 
data in LDAP with the data from NIS or other source of the automount 
information.

I think the way how the data should be initialized should be left to the 
administrator  but the system should provide  several options:
a) Migration scripts that transfer auto mount information from other 
source into LDAP entries in IPA's DS
b) UI to set default setting for all users
c) UI to manage automount data for individual users
d) CLI to manage automount data

These UI screens will be new screens for IPA. We are currently working 
on the new refactored UXD design for v2.
Unfortunately they are not published yet.
I will be working on publishing different new design and informational 
pages on freeIPA this and next week.

Hope this helps.
Thank you
Dmitri

W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> 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
>
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