I think autofs reads all maps upon a start and then, based on the timeout 
variable, updates entries in the indirect maps.
Master map is read only once, upon autofs start - so I guess you might be in 
trouble if you are only using direct maps.
Ondrej

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jakub Hrozek [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 8:33 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [SSSD-users] Re: Autofs Entries Caching
>
>On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:31:51AM -0400, Douglas Duckworth wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We have autofs working great with sssd thanks to support of this listserv.
>>
>> Though during testing we noticed that only home directories, for users
>> who had previously logged into a given server, were cached by the sssd
>client.
>> Can sssd cache autofs for all users in our directory even if they
>> haven't recently logged into a server?
>>
>> Here's our current config for autofs portion:
>>
>> autofs_provider = ldap
>> ldap_autofs_search_base =
>ou=autofs.maps,cn=server,ou=machines,dc=blah
>> ldap_autofs_map_master_name = autofs.maps
>ldap_autofs_map_object_class
>> = automountMap ldap_autofs_entry_object_class = automount
>> ldap_autofs_map_name = ou ldap_autofs_entry_key = cn
>> ldap_autofs_entry_value = automountInformation ldap_deref = always
>
>In general, sssd only caches what automounter asks for. IIRC automounter
>would ask at least for the master map and the nested maps after startups, but
>I don't know how that works with keys, especially with
>(presumably?) wildcard keys you might be using for home dirs..
>
>I'm not sure how else to trigger automounter into explicitly querying the keys
>other than forcing access to the directories, sorry.
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