Assume I have a user called Bob who is authenticated through LDAP. I want to mount Bob's home directory under /ldaphome/bob

How do I do this? I've seen it done like the following:

What does that first place signify? I know the star means "anything", but what else can I put there?

In the auto.misc file, they have some keywords like soft, intr and sync. What do these words mean?


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also is my understanding correct:
Here we are basically setting up a monitor. If bob types cd /ldaphome/bob then autofs searches the auto.master file for an entry. Then, the next 'map' is searched (auto.ldaphome). In this file, we have the location of bob's remote home directory that is to be mounted.

The idea with automounter is to have
and
and it will mount bob and other users automatically in /ldaphome
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If you want only bob then you can use

Why can't you do something like:

vim /etc/auto.master.d/ldap.autofs

/home/ldap /etc/auto.ldap


vim /etc/auto.ldap
* -rw,sync domain.example.com:/home/&

...as your indirect master? I tried but can't get it to work...if I replace /home/ldap with a first level directory (/ldaphome or /home) it works...

With /ldaphome option, you have to remember to set SELinux context since it has the default context of the directory creator - don't you have to match context of /home correct?

With /home, you end up losing access to local directories since ldap is now mounting on top of the local directory structure...I'd like to be able to access both in same structure.