[Freeipa-devel] Automount Documentation

[Adam Young]

Thanks, Rob.  That helps a lot.


On 04/05/2011 05:20 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Adam Young wrote:
>> OK, Just looked at what we have on Automount:
>>
>> http://obriend.fedorapeople.org/freeIPA2.0/Identity_and_Policy_Management_Guide/html-single/#sect-Enterprise_Identity_Management_Guide-Configuring_Automount 
>>
>>
>>
>> It doesn't have any examples of the ipa commands a user would run.
>
> The command help has quite a few examples
>
> ipa help automount
>
>>
>>
>> Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
>>
>> 1. Create a new locations: pretty easy, ipa automountlocation-add is
>> pretty easy to figure out, and a location doesn't really need that much
>> in the way of configuring.
>>
>> 2. Create a new map: Ok, direct or indirect? which is the more common,
>> and which is the corner case? I'm guessing that direct is the more
>> common, but the docs are not helpful:
>
> It is not a question of common vs uncommon, they are used for 
> different purposes.
>
>>
>> automountmap-add AUTOMOUNTLOCATION MAP [options]
>>
>> and no automount specific options are listed, besides description.
>
> There are no options. When you add a map you just specify the name and 
> the location:
>
> ipa automountlocation-add baltimore
> ipa automountmap-add baltimore auto.share
> ipa automountkey-add baltimore auto.share --key=man 
> --info="-ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ipa.example.com:/shared/man"
>
> For a direct map:
>
> ipa automountkey-add baltimore auto.direct --key=/stuff 
> --info="-ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ipa.example.com:/h/stuff"
>
>>
>>
>> add indirect map is a little more expressive:
>>
>> --mount=STR Mount point
>> --parentmap=STR Name of parent automount map (default: auto.master).
>>
>>
>> I tried running this command and both of these are required parameters,
>> although they are not annotated as such.
>>
>> Is it true that only an indirect map has a mount point?
>
> Both have mount points, they are just specified differently.
>
> A direct map lists an exact place to mount the map (/usr/local/bin, 
> /mnt, whatever). An indirect map defines a bucket to drop mounts into. 
> So it might point to /share and all keys for that are relative to 
> that. So you define a key ayoung, the map would be /share/ayoung.

Then, basically, a direct map is a degerenate case of an indirect map, 
with an implied 'mount point' of '/'  ?  It really isn't a mount point, 
is it, more like "map home dir"?


>
>>
>> Moving on to Keys:
>>
>> automountkey-add AUTOMOUNTLOCATION AUTOMOUNTMAP [options]
>> --key=IA5STR Automount key name.
>> --info=IA5STR Mount information
>>
>> Not too bad. That is pretty clear.
>>
>> The step by step here looks better.
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav2_automount
>>
>>
>> Anyone that understands this care to illuminate me?
>>
>>
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