[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 928 fix automount submounts

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:56 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > There is a --parentmap option in automountmap-add-indirect. This is used 
> > to create submount maps but wasn't working at all. It now creates the 
> > proper key entry pointing to another map.
> > 
> > See ticket https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1268 for more details 
> > and examples.
> > 
> > rob
> 
> Works fine. I have just one minor issue. There was one untranslatable
> string:
> 
> +        textui.print_plain('maps not connected to /etc/auto.master:')
> 
> I just wonder - can automount maps contain spaces?  They are allowed in
> our framework. I think this part would not work correctly then:
> 
> automountinformation='-fstype=autofs ldap:%s' % map
> 
> Martin
> 

As far as automount is concerned, the maps are just filesystem names
(that's what automounter historically used). So a space would be rare and
unwise to use, but technically possible.