[Fedora-directory-users] autofs + LDAP

[Rob Crittenden]

Brian Kosick wrote:
> 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,

Apologize!? Heck, thanks for tracking this down!

Do you know if this works without the ldap syntax in 
automountInformation? E.g. can you use just:

automountInformation: auto.software --ghost

cheers

rob

> 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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