[Freeipa-users] Problem automounting home shares

[Ronald Wimmer]

On 2017-04-12 14:55, Jason B. Nance wrote:
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> You cannot use indirect mounting and enablemkhomedir at the same time.  Indirect mounts require that the directory you are attempting to mount already exists on the NFS server and that you let autofs fully manage the "parent" directory on the client machine.  In this case, no one other than autofs can create directories in the top-level of /home on your clients (/home/<user> is a different story).
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> So you either need to pre-create the home directories on your NFS server (including ownership, permissions, and any "skel" stuff you want in there like a default .bashrc) or you need to direct mount /home altogether and lose the benefits of indirect mounting (which may not matter to you).
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So this means I can either use /home mounted as NFS share conventionally 
(without autofs) in combination with mkhomedir or use autofs magic with 
pre-created directories.

As my users come from AD I do not even know which directories would have 
to be created in advance. So I will have to go for option 1.