Re: automount location custom auto.master

[Berry, Thomas M (US 198D)]

Rob,

We did manage to figure out how to align autofs and automount properly on the enrolled host so that LDAP setup with those services are aligned with domain location-based server SRV records.

After enrolling the host with the domain, /etc/autofs.conf can be configured with the domain settings

# adding lookup_srv_rr enables SRV awareness in the autofs/automount relevant LDAP configuration
lookup_srv_rr = yes

# set the search bases specific to the automount location and domain
search_base = "cn=my_automount_loc,cn=automount,dc=idm,dc=domain”

# align autofs with the IPA schema
map_object_class = automountMap
entry_object_class = automount
map_attribute = automountMapName
entry_attribute = automountKey
value_attribute= automountInformation

Then enable ldap for automount in /etc/nsswitch.conf
automount: ldap files

Finally, configure a custom auto.master include file in /etc/auto.master.d/custom.master.autofs which has key and value (information) pairs similar to auto.master entry in the automount location (amloc specified in the searchbase of autofs) on the domain, for example:

/mnt auto.mnt
/home auto.home

Restarting autofs services was the last action to perform and the automounts specified in custom.master.autofs were accessible.

I will have to figure out how to submit a feature request; it would be nice if we were able to use an sssd.conf setting like ipa_automount_master = auto.master.custom to go along with ipa_automount_location to specify a custom default auto.master map entry in the designated automount location.