On Thu, 2006 Jul 06 20:33:12 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > I'm not familiar with the hesoid system but I assume that in the record > above we have: > > AFS -> filesystem type > /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/y/o/yoav -> filesystem > w -> read/write option rw
Aye, that's right. > The last field is confusing but it may be the key used by hes_resolve? > If so for autofs it would not normally be a path but a component such as > yoav here. It's the mount point, actually. The original way of working is that you would mount the volume by invoking "attach sipb" or "attach yoav", without reference to a base path. /mit is the usual location, but some special volumes (e.g. for system software) mount elsewhere in the filesystem. > So you could store this in LDAP by one of the schema such as the NIS > schema by setting attributes for a distinguished name like: > [...] > > cn: yoav > nisMapEntry: AFS /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/y/o/yoav w > [...] > > There's a fair bit of detail left out because I'm not sure about it so > there would have to be some trial and error. But the ",hesoid" will send > the entry to the hesoid parser instead of the sun parser in the same way > as the hesoid lookup module does. Hmm. So it would basically be a Hesiod record stuffed into an LDAP attribute... and (if I understand correctly) autofs is currently limited to this sort of approach as _something_ ultimately has to be fed to the Hesiod parser. I was hoping for something more along the lines of an extension to the standard NIS schema. (It's common for AFS sites to have each user's home directory be a separately mountable volume, so having some sort of user-volume equivalence in LDAP is reasonable.) I take it something like this would require new code to support, then? And how would this work---pulling data from LDAP, but not doing any parsing per se (as the information is already broken out into attributes); there would be no lookup/parser disjunction. Should there be any issue with a backend module that effectively does both tasks? --Daniel -- NAME = Daniel Richard G. ## Remember, skunks _\|/_ meef? EMAIL1 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## don't smell bad--- (/o|o\) / EMAIL2 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## it's the people who < (^),> WWW = http://www.******.org/ ## annoy them that do! / \ -- (****** = site not yet online) _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
