[Freeipa-devel] automount in LDAP

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 18:08 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 
> Ok, for clarification, this is why I'm proposing having the 
> location/name/whatever in the DN.

Understood and I second that.

> You have to supply a base search DN in the autofs config file, on
> Linux 
> anyway.
> 
> So if we cleverly supply this baseDN it is easy to support multiple 
> configurations.
> 
> autofs searches for its base configuration like this:
> 
> SRCH base="dc=example,dc=com" scope=2 
> filter="(&(objectClass=automountMap)(automountMapName=auto.master))" 
> attrs="automountMapName"

Is this filter hardcoded into the autofs binary? Or is it possible to
change via a configuration directive?

> So if we can set that base to something where a unique auto.master
> will 
> be found we can control what is in that master. It seems like that is 
> the only thing that truly needs to be unique.

Yes, if the filter cannot be changed we will have "named" configurations
where the names will be used to create a container.

Like: cn=fooname,cn=automount,dc=example,dc=com
And this should probably be the auto.master object.

Simo.

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