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ldap+nfs+autofs for centralized storage of home directories

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with setting up OpenLDAP with NFS and AutoFS regarding to the storage of home directories?
When I googled I got some information, but I have the feeling that most of them are incomplete or maybe even incorrect. So I wonder if someone can help me setting it up.
I already have an NFS share setup for it. Created an ldif file based on some howto's found by google. And finally OpenLDAP is setup and running supporting Samba domain logon and linux client logon.

Code:

# /etc/exports



/opt/nfs/home   10.0.0.0/8(rw)

Code:

# autofs.ldif



dn: ou=auto.master,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: top

objectClass: automountMap

ou: auto.master



dn: cn=/home,ou=auto.master,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: top

objectClass: automount

automountInformation: ldap:ldap.hulshoff.home:ou=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

cn: /home



dn: ou=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: top

objectClass: automountMap

ou: auto.home



dn: cn=/,ou=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: automount

cn: Administrator

automountinformation: -rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr server.hulshoff.home:/opt/nfs/home/&

cn: /

Code:

dn: uid=Administrator,ou=users,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: account

objectClass: posixAccount

objectClass: sambaSamAccount

objectClass: shadowAccount

uid: Administrator

cn: Administrator

displayName: Administrator

uidNumber: 50000

sambaSID: S-1-5-21-960022806-<hidden>

sambaPasswordHistory: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

 00000000

sambaAcctFlags: [U          ]

loginShell: /bin/bash

gidNumber: 50001

sambaLMPassword: <password>

sambaNTPassword: <password>

sambaPwdLastSet: 1265359113

gecos: Administrator

shadowWarning: 7

shadowMax: 99999

userPassword:: <password>

shadowFlag: 0

shadowLastChange: 14615

ou: users

homeDirectory: /home/Administrator

TIA,
Arjan

Fixed it myself...

I changed /etc/sysconf/autofs, which I shouldn't have done. Further more I had to change /etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf and set usetls="yes".
And last but not least the ldif file should look like:

Code:

dn: nisMapName=auto.master,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: top

objectClass: nisMap

nisMapName: auto.master



dn: cn=/home,nisMapName=auto.master,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: nisObject

cn: /home

nisMapEntry: ldap:ldap.hulshoff.home:nisMapName=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

nisMapName: auto.master



dn: nisMapName=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: top

objectClass: nisMap

nisMapName: auto.home



dn: cn=/,nisMapName=auto.home,dc=hulshoff,dc=home

objectClass: nisObject

cn: /

nisMapEntry: -fstype=nfs server.hulshoff.home:/opt/nfs/home/&

nisMapName: auto.home

One thing I haven't tried yet is to change the location where the client will expect to find the home directory. Currently I am not going to worry about that. For this I probably need to change the dn: cn=/home,nisMapName=auto.master,dc=hulshoff,dc=home and the attribute homeDirectory of the ldap account should probably also changed to the new location.

Going to test that later on.