[SSSD] sssd & autofs

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Fri Aug 19 21:25:01 UTC 2011


On 08/18/2011 01:47 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 12:22 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> On 08/17/2011 05:03 AM, Ondrej Valousek wrote: 
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Quick question - is anyone working on the automounter support yet? I
>>> am just curious how it would be done.
> Me too, at this stage.
>
>>> I see only one ticket (#900) which suggests support via executable
>>> maps, but this solution seems to be quite nasty.
>>> I believe that ideal solution would be via plugin library (something
>>> like /usr/lib/autofs/lookup_sssd.so) to the automounter - I am sure
>>> Ian Kent (the autofs maintainer) would help as well.
>>>
>> Ticket 900 is what we can afford doing ourselves. It is planned for
>> 1.8 so it it will be worked closer to the end of the year.
>> I am not sure if Ian Kent would have any cycles to help. I CCed him on
>> the mail.
>> The solution you are talking about is better but will take much more
>> time and effort to implement. Would you be able to help? 
> I've talked about this briefly with Steven Gallagher but got side
> tracked onto other things. I need to get back to that discussion.
>
> I suspect that what will be needed is a lookup_sssd.so on the part of
> autofs that talks to sssd and asks for map records and then handles the
> various structural cases. Map entry specific (or data specific) handling
> shouldn't be done in sssd. That doesn't mean that the task will be
> simple for sssd either since there are a number of LDAP schema maps may
> be stored in, and possibly stored outside of any of these schema but
> that probably shouldn't be supported.
>
We need to get back to this conversation later in October.


>>
>>> What do you think?
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ondrej
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Dmitri Pal
>>
>> Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
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Thank you,
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