[Freeipa-devel] Automount Documentation

[Rob Crittenden]

Adam Young wrote:
> OK, Just looked at what we have on Automount:
>
> http://obriend.fedorapeople.org/freeIPA2.0/Identity_and_Policy_Management_Guide/html-single/#sect-Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide-Configuring_Automount
>
>
> It doesn't have any examples of the ipa commands a user would run.

The command help has quite a few examples

ipa help automount

>
>
> Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
>
> 1. Create a new locations: pretty easy, ipa automountlocation-add is
> pretty easy to figure out, and a location doesn't really need that much
> in the way of configuring.
>
> 2. Create a new map: Ok, direct or indirect? which is the more common,
> and which is the corner case? I'm guessing that direct is the more
> common, but the docs are not helpful:

It is not a question of common vs uncommon, they are used for different 
purposes.

>
> automountmap-add AUTOMOUNTLOCATION MAP [options]
>
> and no automount specific options are listed, besides description.

There are no options. When you add a map you just specify the name and 
the location:

ipa automountlocation-add baltimore
ipa automountmap-add baltimore auto.share
ipa automountkey-add baltimore auto.share --key=man 
--info="-ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ipa.example.com:/shared/man"

For a direct map:

ipa automountkey-add baltimore auto.direct --key=/stuff 
--info="-ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ipa.example.com:/h/stuff"

>
>
> add indirect map is a little more expressive:
>
> --mount=STR Mount point
> --parentmap=STR Name of parent automount map (default: auto.master).
>
>
> I tried running this command and both of these are required parameters,
> although they are not annotated as such.
>
> Is it true that only an indirect map has a mount point?

Both have mount points, they are just specified differently.

A direct map lists an exact place to mount the map (/usr/local/bin, 
/mnt, whatever). An indirect map defines a bucket to drop mounts into. 
So it might point to /share and all keys for that are relative to that. 
So you define a key ayoung, the map would be /share/ayoung.

>
> Moving on to Keys:
>
> automountkey-add AUTOMOUNTLOCATION AUTOMOUNTMAP [options]
> --key=IA5STR Automount key name.
> --info=IA5STR Mount information
>
> Not too bad. That is pretty clear.
>
> The step by step here looks better.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav2_automount
>
>
> Anyone that understands this care to illuminate me?
>
>
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