[Fedora-directory-users] autofs + LDAP

[Patrick Morris]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Brian Kosick wrote:

> I should clarify...   My original looked like this:
> 
> dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=mxlogic,dc=com
> cn: internal
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro
> itchy.corp.mxlogic.com:/var/qa
> 
> Which worked but I want to use the --ghost option so I tried....
> 
> dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=mxlogic,dc=com
> cn: internal
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro
> itchy.corp.mxlogic.com:/var/qa --ghost
> 
> Which broke it.
> Brian

As far as I know this is an unresolved bug in autofs's LDAP support.

There may be workarounds depending on which OS/distribution you're on.