[Fedora-directory-users] automount (revisited)

[Richard Megginson]

Roger Spencer wrote:

> I dug the below out from the archive.  Is there anything new on the 
> subject?
>
> I've seemed to have slammed head first into the subject.  Got SUSE and 
> RHEL 3 using nisObjects happily (apparently they'll support either 
> model).  Just configured a Solaris 10 box as a client and it wants 
> automountMap.  Even worse, Solaris 9 and 10 do automountMap, Solaris 8 
> does nisObjects.  Fortunately, I have all three versions running.  
> (Info on Solaris' automount: 
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31550&seqNum=4&rl=1 )
>
> I tried loading the 10rfc2307bis.ldif (by replacing the 10rfc2307.ldif 
> file) and slapd wouldn't restart. 

What errors did you see in the errors log?

>
> Any idea to a) get the automountMap objects in the schema?  b) 
> possibly support both models?
>
>     * /From/: Rich Megginson <rmeggins redhat com>
>     * /To/: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server
>       project." <fedora-directory-users redhat com>
>     * /Subject/: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: automount
>     * /Date/: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:01:40 -0600
>
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> There has been a lot of confusion around this issue (mostly on my 
> part). I think one of the problems is that rfc2307 support from OS 
> vendors is now deprecated in favor of rfc2307bis 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-howard-rfc2307bis-01.txt, 
> which is still in Internet Draft phase (and is due to expire very 
> quickly). A new draft is being worked on with the goal of generating a 
> new RFC. The bis draft has one problem with it, in that it requires 
> the use of the authPassword attribute (defined in RFC 3112 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3112.txt). FDS does not support this (and 
> neither does OpenLDAP AFAICT). I have attached a file called 
> 10rfc2307bis.ldif. This is the schema from the 2307bis I-D in FDS 
> schema format.
>
> The preferred way to map the automount information is to use the 
> automount attributes and objectclasses in the RFC 2307bis draft 
> schema. The problem is that I don't know all of the vendor support. So 
> far I've been unable to find out what RHEL3 and RHEL4 support. I've 
> been told that Solaris has support for the bis schema.
>
> If you like, you can replace the 10rfc2307.ldif schema supplied with 
> FDS with the attached file, and see what happens.
>
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