[Fedora-directory-users] autofs + LDAP

[Brian Kosick]

Hi All,

Sorry for the top post but I wanted to put the solution first...
It turns out that I need to lay off the crack pipe a little bit.   As
soon as I added --ghost to the correct place everything started working
fine.   This was a little frustrating as everything that I found on the
Net seemed to indicate that the --ghost option goes in the wrong place.

Example:  I WAS trying combinations of this, which doesn't work.

dn: cn=internal,ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
cn: internal
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: -soft,intr,nodev,tcp,ro nfs.example.com:/var/qa
--ghost

It works just fine when you add it here:

dn: cn=/software,ou=auto.master,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automount
cn: /software
automountInformation:
ldap:qapxe.qa.mxlogic.com:ou=auto.software,dc=corp,dc=example,dc=com
--ghost

I apologize for wasting everyones time,
Brian

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:53 -0700, Brian Kosick wrote:
> Hrrrm  thanks,
> 
> I believe that it is an unresolved bug, based on the info regarding this
> issue that I've already found via google....
> 
> It looks like the autofs author back in 2006 came _real close_ to
> looking into this, but a workaround seemed to have put this issue back
> into the deep dark corners of his mind.   In fact he probably has dreams
> that he forgot about something to this day because of it.
> 
> I'm joining the list to see if I can't get anyone to look into this....
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:27 -0700, Patrick Morris wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
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