On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 15:34 -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
> Jim Summers wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I have been attempting to get autofs5 to work with my ldap config.  The 
> > way I am set up is:
> > 
> > FC6 / FC7 clients and redhat servers.
> > auto.home info for each user is stored in ldap
> > auto.master is stored locally on each client
> > 
> > The mounts do not happen.  Here is what I see when starting autofs:
> > ======
> > Jul 20 13:22:53 lch automount[3427]: Starting automounter version 
> > 5.0.1-11, master map auto.master
> > Jul 20 13:22:53 lch automount[3427]: using kernel protocol version 5.00
> > Jul 20 13:22:53 lch automount[3427]: master_error: syntax error while 
> > parsing map.
> > Jul 20 13:22:53 lch automount[3427]: mounted indirect mount on /misc 
> > with timeout 300, freq 75 seconds
> > Jul 20 13:22:53 lch automount[3427]: mounted indirect mount on /net with 
> > timeout 300, freq 75 seconds
> > ======
> > Here is the auto.master:
> > ======
> > /home    ldap://129.15.1.203/ou=auto.home,dc=it,dc=ou,dc=edu
> 
> I may have stumbled onto the problem.  In the dn above, notice that it has 
> dc=ou.  I was trying various things and thought, let's remove that and see 
> what happens.  Sure enough the log messages start showing the attempt to get 
> the /home stuff but it fails because the ldap tree doesn't match.  I can then 
> put the dc=ou back in and it just fails with that syntax error.  This was all 
> fine in the autofs4 version.  The ldap is setup that way to match domain for 
> instance, it.ou.edu.

Good piece of detective work.
I'll have a look and see how to fix it.

> 
> I can test if I can find the place in the code to change it back to the way 
> that version4 was doing things and then re-compile.

Don't think you have much chance of relating the v5 code back to v4
code. Don't waste your time, I see the problem and I'll sort out a fix.

Ian


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