[Freeipa-users] Auto-Mount Home Directory for Local Users?

[Rob Crittenden]

Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:42:55PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:49:05PM -0500, Dean Hunter wrote:
>>> Thank you for your response. As you suggested I
>>> checked /etc/nsswitch.conf. ipa-client-automount left the line looking
>>> like:
>>>
>>> automount: sss files
>>
>> If it did, then I would consider it to be ipa-client-automount, I think
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                     "to be ipa-client-automount *bug*". Sorry for the typo

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3733

I guess I'd check the system logs to see if /home/local was attempted to 
be mounted at all. Does it exist on the NFS server?

I find running automount in foreground mode with debugging to be very 
useful in tracking down these issues.

rob