[Freeipa-users] experience using IPA in a mixed environment

[Rob Crittenden]

Carl E. Ma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My environment has Redhat5, 6, Centos 6.x and Ubuntu 12.04. Following Redhat identity management manual, I am able to configure user authentication, kerberos NFS, SSSD and autofs on most of my systems.
>
> The only trouble is integrating ubuntu 12.04 with autofs.
>
> 1. automount in /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't recognize sss as the name service, you need to put ldap instead.
> 2. automount on ubuntu 12.04 doesn't recognize the auto.master map from IPA server.
>
> On our IPA server:
> ipaserver# ipa automountlocation-tofiles default
> /etc/auto.master:
> /-      /etc/auto.direct
> /home   /etc/auto.home
> ---------------------------
> /etc/auto.direct:
> ---------------------------
> /etc/auto.home:
> *       -fstype=nfs4,rw,sec=krb5,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 nfs:/opt/shares/home/&
>
>
>>From ubuntu 12.04 IPA client:
> #automount -f -d     <=shows it can't find the auto.master map, in /etc/default/autofs, I tried both ways to specify the auto.master map.
> ==
> #cat /etc/default/autofs  | grep MASTER
> #MASTER_MAP_NAME="automountmapname=auto.master,cn=default,cn=automount,dc=x,dc=x,dc=x,dc=com"
> MASTER_MAP_NAME="auto.master"
> ==
>
>>From the error messages, it seems automount on ubuntu doesn't lookup LDAP for auto.master information.
>
> Apr  4 17:25:26 ecs-94a55510 automount[1032]: lookup(file): file map /etc/automountmapname=auto.master,cn=default,cn=automount,dc=x,dc=x,dc=x,dc=com missing or not readable
>
> Although I am using pam to automount user home directory, i am curious  whether anyone else experienced the same problem, or maybe I missed something.

Can you provide more information on how you configured automount (e.g. 
can we see the config files)? Did you use the ipa-client-automount 
command or configure things by hand?

rob