[Freeipa-users] Automounter maps

[Rob Crittenden]

Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>
>
> On 01.07.2011 16:33, Adam Young wrote:
>> With automount, what we found is that there is a wide array of
>> implementation approaches.  Based on talking with people that are
>> interested in IPA, we found that people can't even agree on whether
>> the users home directories should be automatically created when the
>> user is added to the system.  Often, people have multiple locations,
>> and the user does not get a home directory for a location until they
>> need it.  Thus, we've taken the blank slate approach to automount policy.
>
> Ok, I did not mention automounter maps at this point, I only discussed
> the very first step - how to bind automounter to our DS.
> And there, as I believe, should be wide consensus that the approach
> described above is the best (I even believe that anonymous binds to the
> DS should be forbidden by default - the same way AD does).
>
> By having it a part of the /ipa-client-install/ procedure we would sort
> out many questions about not-working automounter (see the recent
> discussion on this list) so admins can directly concentrate on the
> automounter maps.
>
> Will I get any attention if I submit a RFE into the RedHat bugzilla? I
> can try to code something myself but I am not too god in python :-( .

We have a ticket opened in our tracker for this, 
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1233 . We probably won't have a 
chance to look at this for a while.

rob