Re: autofs 5.0.1-rc1 still doesn't find master map in ldap automatically

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Piete.Brooks--autofs@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
>> OK, I found the issue: when all you have is mapname, and you have to use
>> default server and base, you should use LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE scope for
>> your query, not LDAP_SCOPE_ONELEVEL
> 
> Why?
Because using LDAP_SCOPE_ONELEVEL assume your master map is directly
beyond your default base, which is likely to be wrong.

> As I said before, it works for me as it is. I see no need to change it.
> 
> I've just had my wrist slapped for suggesting doing three queries for the 
> three "common" schemas, so changing from a one level search (which should be 
> very fast as I'd not expect much at the top level) to searching the WHOLE tree 
> (which I expect to be several orders of magnitude slower) would seem not to be 
> a good idea.
Only once, for the initial master map lookup, and only if no explicit
map name has been given.

> 
> If you do the search manually, does it work?
Yes, because ldapsearch default's scope is sub.

> Are the two programmes using the same conf file (e.g. std /etc/ldap.conf vs 
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf)?
of course. ldap client use ldap library, as does automount.
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