[Freeipa-users] Using Automount for NFS

[Rob Crittenden]

McDougall, Ryan P. [mcry0802 at stcloudstate.edu] wrote:
> Would anyone be able to give me an example of how to configure autofs
> with the fstab, or tell me where I went wrong? I am having trouble
> getting things to work. The main thing is that the permissions don’t
> seem to be correct for the home directories that we are creating for
> users, because when a user logs in, their home directory will be
> created, but it will say permission denied when it will try to change
> directory to it. The weird thing is then, they start in root, but then
> they can change to their home directory then. Any help would be appreciated!
>
> I attached sanitized versions of our configuration files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan McDougall

Maybe the SELinux context is not correct. Is the ownership otherwise ok? 
Can you look in /var/log/audit/audit.log on the client machine to see if 
an AVC is raised?

Also, can you see if you have the oddjob-mkhomedir package installed on 
the client?

thanks

rob