A lot to chew on here.  Seems I may need to rethink my approach for
different scenarios.  Will do so and reply in a bit.

As for docs, anything is better than nothing.  If there is something
existing, that will suffice if you can provide links, etc.

Thanks

Brendan
On Feb 4, 2015 3:42 AM, "Ian Kent" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:06 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 15:47 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:21:10AM -0500, Brendan Kearney wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 14:08 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:50:12AM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > > > > > On 02/02/2015 01:52 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > > > > > >On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:17:02AM -0500, Brendan Kearney wrote:
> > > > > > >>On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 19:01 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > > > > > >>>On 01/31/2015 12:23 PM, Brendan Kearney wrote:
> > > > > > >>>>i want to have an automount configured so that
> > > > > > >>>>nas.bpk2.com:/export/music is mounted on
> /home/<username>/Music.  i want
> > > > > > >>>>to use the HOME variable, but several attempts have not
> gotten the job
> > > > > > >>>>done.  i have tried $HOME/Music, ${HOME}/Music, and
> {$HOME}/Music, and
> > > > > > >>>>none have worked.
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>>what is the correct way to use a variable with AutoFS and
> SSSD?  i have
> > > > > > >>>>used the hard values to get things working for my id, but
> want to have
> > > > > > >>>>this work for all users.
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>>dn:
> > > > > >
> >>>>automountKey=/home/brendan/Music,automountMapName=auto.shares,cn=autofs,ou=Daemons,dc=bpk2,dc=com
> > > > > > >>>>automountinformation: nas.bpk2.com:/export/music
> > > > > > >>>>automountkey: /home/brendan/Music
> > > > > > >>>>description: music
> > > > > > >>>>objectclass: automount
> > > > > > >>>>objectclass: top
> >
> > This is a direct mount map entry.
> > You can't use the wildcard key in a direct mount key.
> >
> > Oddly enough I suspect you could use the & substitution in the mount
> > location but that's generally not useful because it would replace the
> > whole path (the entire key) at it's occurrence in the mount location.
> >
> > You can't use macros in lookup keys with them (or indirect mounts)
> > either because the path is used as the lookup key.
> >
> > I know you think that using the information about the requesting could
> > be used but it's not as simple as that.
> >
> > The problem is that multiple processes could request a mount at the same
> > time, resulting in a queue waiting for mount completion, and the user
> > information that is returned will be that of the process that originally
> > triggered the mount and so might not be what you'd expect. There's no
> > straight forward way to fix that.
>
> And, now that I think about it, there's another reason macros aren't
> used in direct mount keys.
>
> At startup the keys in direct mount maps are used to create trigger
> mounts for later automounting. That's the only way direct mounts can be
> done so there's no way to do macro substitution, even if we wanted to,
> of macros that don't have an already known value.
>
> Ian
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