[Freeipa-users] ipa automount bug?

[Rob Crittenden]

Standa Laznicka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am no automount expert so I will leave answering those questions to
> those but see my comment inline.
>
> On 10/27/2016 06:16 AM, William Muriithi wrote:
>> Evening,
>>
>> I am trying to import some autos map from a file to FreeIPA LDAP and
>> have noticed two problems that can be considered a bug in my humble
>> opinion.  This is on:
>>
>> ipa-server-4.2.0-15.0.1.el7
>>
>> 1.  This either is a documentation bug that suggest one can specify a
>> parent map while thats actually not the case or ipa I am running has a
>> bug and can't handle parent map. Below is what I get when I try to
>> specify parent map:
>>
>> [root at hydrogen ~]# ipa automountmap-add-indirect default
>> auto.projects-prs1013 –-mount=/projects/prs1013
>> --parentmap=auto.projects
> Is this a direct copy-paste from the terminal? If so and your e-mail
> client did not do any reformatting then the first character in the
> "–-mount=/projects/prs1013" is not a dash, which results in it being
> recognized as a third argument, thus the warning about at most 2 arguments.
>>
>> ipa: ERROR: command 'automountmap_add_indirect' takes at most 2 arguments
>>
>>   I had got the idea that this is possible from the documentation below:
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/configuring-maps.html
>>
>>
>> According to the document, I should be able to specify an automap
>> parent.  However, it don’t look like that’s actually supported.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. How would one import an existing maps to ipa auto.home map.  Import
>> seem to be only capable of importing to auto.master, which make its
>> utility doubtful
>>
>> [root at hydrogen ~]# ipa automountlocation-import  default
>> /tmp/2016-10-26/auto.home
>>
>> Imported maps:
>> Imported keys:
>>
>> Added adam to auto.master
>> ......
>>
>> I think we should have a flag that allow importation of key to other
>> other maps other than auto.master

You're right, auto.master is hardcoded. Please open an RFE for this if 
you need to be able to specify the mount.

rob