LDAP automount problem and workaround

[Stephen Walton]

I hope this will save someone else some hours.  If you had automount
maps on RedHat 8 or 9 and have switched to Fedora, you'll find they no
longer work.  The fix is to explicitly include the LDAP server name in
automountInformation.  That is, your LDIF file should contain

automountInformation:ldap:ldaphost.your.domain.com:ou=auto.home,dc=your,dc=domain,dc=com

instead of the simpler

automountInformation:ldap:ou=auto.home,dc=your,dc=domain,dc=com

I filed a Bugzilla bug about this at RedHat.

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Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge