On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Jim Kusznir wrote: > Hello all: > > I've been tasked with making AutoFS get its maps from a Windows 2003 > Active Directory server via LDAP. I know AutoFS works with LDAP in some > fashon or another, however the documentation seems very sparce, and > information on the net seems very fragmented and contradictory in areas. > > My primary questions at this point: > > What schema(s) does the latest AutoFS support? Does it support > standards such as NisMap? (I've found both "yes" and "no" answers to > this on the net, and no details in either)
autofs supports the NisMap and automountMap schemas. I've recently become aware of a couple of problems. The autofs-4.1.3 in RHEL doesn't seem to ba able to talk to the Sun LDAP server however autofs-4.1.4 appears to work OK. The schema attributes used by Sun (automountMap) implementations have probably been incorrect since before I started maintaining autofs and I've perpetuated that without realizing the problem. Now we likely have a bunch of people that will be inconvenienced if I fix it. In particular autofs uses the "cn" attribute to contain the map key but I believe this should be the "automountKey" attribute. > > How are maps entered in such schema? > > Are there any HOWTOs that cover LDAP specifically? (I'm familiar with > the amd-autofs howto at linuxconsulting, however I haven't found any > useful (as of yet) LDAP info in there). Have you looked at the LDAP examples in the samples directory of the tarball? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
