第5章 Using Ansible to automount NFS shares for IdM users

On a system that utilizes autofs, the automount configuration is stored in several different files. The primary automount configuration file is /etc/auto.master, which contains the master mapping of automount mount points, and their associated resources, on a system. This mapping is known as automount maps.

The /etc/auto.master configuration file contains the master map. It can contain references to other maps. These maps can either be direct or indirect. Direct maps use absolute path names for their mount points, while indirect maps use relative path names.

While automount typically retrieves its map data from the local /etc/auto.master and associated files, it can also retrieve map data from other sources. One common source is an LDAP server. In the context of Identity Management (IdM), this is a 389 Directory Server.

If a system that uses autofs is a client in an IdM domain, the automount configuration is not stored in local configuration files. Instead, the autofs configuration, such as maps, locations, and keys, is stored as LDAP entries in the IdM directory. For example, for the idm.example.com IdM domain, the default master map is stored as follows:

dn:
automountmapname=auto.master,cn=default,cn=automount,dc=idm,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automountMap
objectClass: top
automountMapName: auto.master