hallo Darac, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > On 01/04/2024 07:55, Felix Natter wrote: > > hello debian-users, > > I configured autofs for /home: > > * -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,bg,intr SERVER:/share/& > > Just to point out that this is "/share", not "/home". You might have set > user's home directories to be /share/<username>, but you've not mentioned that > explicitly.
you interpreted this wrongly: The whole config is for /home (defined in /etc/auto.home and /etc/auto.misc or similar). The * means "any username", and the right hand side is saying "mount SERVER:/share/$1 as /home/$1" using NFS. > But now the login as "admin" does not work any more, since > it tries to mount SERVER:/share/admin -> Is it possible to exclude > a user from automounting? > > Probably the simplest method is to ensure that "admin"'s home directory isn't > below /share. You could keep that under /home, or make a new folder, as you > prefer. Ok, that is an idea: Change /etc/passwd so that "admin" gets the home from /export/admins/admin. The (small) downside is that I potentially need to do this for every admin around (In my "workaround" I can make /etc/auto.home executable and use bash's wildcard matching). > The workaround [1] I use is this: > > admin -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,bg,intr localhost:/export/admin_homes/& > * -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,bg,intr SERVER:/share/& > > where /export/admin_homes/admin is just a normal directory. > > [1] > https://serverfault.com/questions/245121/how-to-prevent-autofs-from-mounting-over-specific-directories > > Is this a valid solution? Will it work on Debian/Ubuntu/... also in the > future? Since I already did it that way: Can somebody please tell me whether my "workaround" is valid? > I use FreeIPA to manage my NFS home directories, and I've set my users there > to have home directories under /home/ipa/<username>. This means that > non-FreeIPA users (i.e. if I need a machine-only user) have their homes under > /home/<username> which isn't NFS-mounted. Yes, thanks (this is similar to your suggestion above). I would have do it the other way around, i.e. keep the homes in /home, as users' Homes depend on it. Many Thanks and Best Regards, Felix -- Felix Natter debian/rules!
