I have followed this documentation for enabling an automount to show up for a NIS client that is bound to FreeIPA, and it worked as expected and the NIS client can see the automount:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/linux_domain_identity_authentication_and_policy_guide/exposing_automount_maps_to_nis_clients

I then went back and dumped the entire ldap tree out of curiosity to see my changes I just added, and they are not there. If I search for the keys "nis-base" or "nis-domain" for example, it's no where to be found. 

Where did this change actually go? I feel like I'm going crazy! :)


Thanks for the help in furthering my understanding!