LDAP automountMap or nisMap

LDAP automountMap or nisMap

[Shane]

Hey All,

I've been googling around trying to find out what is the "better"
option between using LDAP automountMap's or nisMap's. I can get either
/ both working, the question is more for being able to find / get good
support should we need it, which of these maps is the preferred map to
use by autofs? ...does the answer change between autofs 3 and 4?

TIA
Shane.

Re: LDAP automountMap or nisMap

[Ian Kent]

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 17:45 +1030, Shane wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> I've been googling around trying to find out what is the "better"
> option between using LDAP automountMap's or nisMap's. I can get either
> / both working, the question is more for being able to find / get good
> support should we need it, which of these maps is the preferred map to
> use by autofs? ...does the answer change between autofs 3 and 4?

There's more than one variant of the automountMap type.
I believe the rfc2307bis is the most recent.

Ian

Re: LDAP automountMap or nisMap

[Shane]

On 12/02/07, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 17:45 +1030, Shane wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I've been googling around trying to find out what is the "better"
> > option between using LDAP automountMap's or nisMap's. I can get either
> > / both working, the question is more for being able to find / get good
> > support should we need it, which of these maps is the preferred map to
> > use by autofs? ...does the answer change between autofs 3 and 4?
>
> There's more than one variant of the automountMap type.
> I believe the rfc2307bis is the most recent.
>
> Ian

Thanks for the reply - is this confirmation that automountMap's are
the better / preferred option for autofs though?

Also, we're using a "default" autofs schema provided by redhat (it is
a RHEL4 box) when we do a ldapsearch over the automount's in ldap the
automountInformation coming back is hashed somehow. I've been googling
a fair bit and can't find a way around this - any ideas on how / why
and how to get around it?

TIA
Shane.

Re: LDAP automountMap or nisMap

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:32 +1030, Shane wrote:
> On 12/02/07, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 17:45 +1030, Shane wrote:
> > > Hey All,
> > >
> > > I've been googling around trying to find out what is the "better"
> > > option between using LDAP automountMap's or nisMap's. I can get either
> > > / both working, the question is more for being able to find / get good
> > > support should we need it, which of these maps is the preferred map to
> > > use by autofs? ...does the answer change between autofs 3 and 4?
> >
> > There's more than one variant of the automountMap type.
> > I believe the rfc2307bis is the most recent.
> >
> > Ian
> 
> Thanks for the reply - is this confirmation that automountMap's are
> the better / preferred option for autofs though?

I think so.
The autofs default is still nisMap but that's very old.

> 
> Also, we're using a "default" autofs schema provided by redhat (it is
> a RHEL4 box) when we do a ldapsearch over the automount's in ldap the
> automountInformation coming back is hashed somehow. I've been googling
> a fair bit and can't find a way around this - any ideas on how / why
> and how to get around it?

I've seen that before but I'm not an LDAP person so I'm not sure what's
going on.

I thought that was just base64 encoding of long strings.

Are you sure that when you use autofs this doesn't just work?

Ian