[Fedora-directory-users] autofs + LDAP
Brian Kosick
bkosick at mxlogic.com
Wed Jan 14 20:58:17 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:30 -0700, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Brian Kosick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Sorry for the top post but I wanted to put the solution first...
> > It turns out that I need to lay off the crack pipe a little bit. As
> > soon as I added --ghost to the correct place everything started working
> > fine. This was a little frustrating as everything that I found on the
> > Net seemed to indicate that the --ghost option goes in the wrong place.
> >
> > Example: I WAS trying combinations of this, which doesn't work.
> >
> > dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
> > cn: internal
> > objectClass: automount
> > automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro nfs.example.com:/var/qa
> > --ghost
> >
> > It works just fine when you add it here:
> >
> > dn: cn=/software,ou=auto.master,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
> > objectClass: automount
> > cn: /software
> > automountInformation:
> > ldap:qapxe.qa.mxlogic.com:ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
> > --ghost
> >
> > I apologize for wasting everyones time,
>
> Apologize!? Heck, thanks for tracking this down!
>
> Do you know if this works without the ldap syntax in
> automountInformation? E.g. can you use just:
>
> automountInformation: auto.software --ghost
>
> cheers
>
> rob
<snip>
Hrrm I don't know. From my understanding of how it works, wouldn't
that be using LDAP to point back to the local /etc/auto.software file?
Or just break it entirely? I can probably give it a try a little
later...
Brian
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