Fwd: Re: autofs+LDAP

[mikel <mikel@irontec.com>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [autofs] autofs+LDAP
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:14:21 +0200
From: mikel <mikel@irontec.com>
To: "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>

mmm very interesting... that is what I need!!

I want to have the capability to personalize automount for each user.

I want user1 have in /home mass_storage_ip:/remote_homes/user1

and user2:  /home mass_storage_ip:/remote_homes/user2

Guide to do that...
A lot of thanks!! really

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:33:40 -0500, "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>
wrote:
>
>
> Ian Kent wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 23:40 +0200, Mikel Jimenez wrote:
>>> Hello Guys
>>>
>>> I have a OpenLDAP server with user accounts. Actually, i autheticate my
>>> LAN machines to LDAP server and ALL OK.
>>>
>>> I want that:
>>>
>>> EXAMPLE:
>>> day 1:
>>> user1 login in machine1 and I want to mount via NFS, the home of this
>>> user, that is in another storage server
>>>
>>> day 2: user 1 login in machine6 and I want to mount via NFS, the home
> of
>>> this user, that is in another storage server
>>>
>>>
>>> I want to have all users homes, in a centralized storage server, and
>>> give the posibility to users to login in any machine of the LAN, and
>>> have they home directory mounted automaticaly.
>>>
>>> Is that posible with autofs+LDAP?
>
> In auto.master, you can have an entry like:
> /home ldap:nisMapName=auto_XXXXX,ou=Autofs,....
> and have each system specify a different auto_XXXXX location in LDAP to
> start from.
>
> Or you could have have script in place of the auto.home entry:
> /home auto_select_script,....
> where auto_select_script is a script that is passed the username.
> It can use ldap to determine what to do.
>
>>
>> Basically yes, but there are a number of decisions about how this might
>> be setup at your site that don't relate specifically to autofs.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
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