[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment

[Rob Crittenden]

nasir nasir wrote:
> Adam/Nalin,
>
> Two cases,
>
> 1) When I am testing this by manually mounting the nfs share(which is
> */xtra* )on the NFS server itself using the following command,
> *
> *
> * #mount -vvvv -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 nfsserver.cohort.org:/ /home*
>
> I get whatever problem I described in previous mail(permission issues).
> Now this could be because here IPA is not managing the user/group
> permissions completely(Correct me if I am wrong in this assumption) and
> all the problem you described happen.

What is it you are actually trying to do here, mount every single /home 
directory? To test automount I tended to do: cd /home/<someuser>. It 
should be automatically mounted.

If your machine is configured to use IPA for identity then yes, it 
manages all users and groups (e.g. you used ipa-client-install).

>
> 2) When I DO NOT mount manually and instead I try to login as a new user
> on the nfsserver machine, It creates the home folder for this user on
> the /home partition of nfsserver machine because automount is NOT
> working and hence there is no mounted partition to confuse things.
> So to be able to test it properly, I need to fix the issue in automount
> and get the case #2 tested and working properly with /home automatically
> mounted from the nfsserver.
> This is my "*ipa automountlocation-tofiles default" *output,
>
> */etc/auto.master:*
> */- /etc/auto.direct*
> */share /etc/auto.share*
> */home /etc/auto.home*
> *---------------------------*
> */etc/auto.direct:*
> *---------------------------*
> */etc/auto.share:*
> *---------------------------*
> */etc/auto.home:*
> ** -rw,sec=krb5,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> nfsserver.cohort.org:/xtra/home/&*
>
> *
> *
> Is this OK ? Please help.

And you configured this to automatically create the homedirectory, 
right? I wonder if there is a conflict/race with that.

This line apears to be ok. Does it work if you do cd /home/<someuser> ?

rob