On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:28:28PM -0700, 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) > > How are maps entered in such schema? > The current stable version of autofs (4.1.4) does support nis.schema and autofs.schema. With the nis.schema, entries must have objectclass "nisObject"; the relevant attributes are "cn" (the mount point, as in the second argument of the mount command) and "nismapentry" (the "automount information": options and first argument of the mount command).
If you need greater flexibility (want to use a different schema), or if you need to authenticate to the LDAP server: there is a patch for autofs-4.1.4 to allow this: http://timof.qipc.org/autofs The page also shows some examples. It works for me with an OpenLDAP server. I've never tried it with Windows AD, but I would like to learn whether it does. Regards, Timo Felbinger -- Timo Felbinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quantum Physics Group http://www.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de Institut fuer Physik Tel: +49 331 977 1793 Fax: -1767 Universitaet Potsdam, Germany PGP key-id: E92567B2 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
