[Freeipa-users] Automount cross-location support

[Sigbjorn Lie]

Hi,

I opened a RFE request almost 2 years ago for automount cross-location support, and recently I
discovered how it can be integrated.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1699


It is possible to reference a LDAP map from outside what is set in the BASE_DN in
/etc/sysconfig/autofs.

Consider the following. The BASE_DN is set to: cn=default,cn=automount,dc=example,dc=com

Add an entry to the auto.master in location "default" like this and restart automount:
/test2 ldap automountmapname=auto_test2,cn=secondlocation,cn=automount,dc=example,dc=com

I tested this on RHEL 6.4 and it worked just fine. Maps from the default location and the
specificed "test2" map is read and the entries are mounted successfully.

Now I can do this manually, but it would be nice to have this integrated in the IPA framework.

The only downside to this implementation is that I am not sure if this will work across platforms.
It might be a Linux automount feature only. Using features of 389ds such as the compat module to
mirror maps between automount maps would work on any platform.





Regards,
Siggi