[Fedora-directory-users] autofs + LDAP

[Brian Kosick]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:30 -0700, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 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
<snip>

Hrrm  I don't know.  From my understanding of how it works, wouldn't
that be using LDAP to point back to the local /etc/auto.software file?
Or just break it entirely? I can probably give it a try a little
later...

Brian