Autofs howto

[Christopher Sean Hilton]

On May 8, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On Thursday, May 07, 2009 22:16:01 -0500 Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>>
>> While cryptic, It has worked well for me with multiple FreeBSD and  
>> Linux
>> hosts on my network.
>>
>
> Hopefully it will work well for me too.  However, I am struggling  
> with the documentation, trying to figure out how to translate the  
> developer-speak into normal human language.
>
> Here's what one of our guys is using on linux (I changed the  
> hostname to foobar):

> cat /etc/auto.master
> /home   ldap //foobar.utdallas.edu/ 
> nismapname=auto_home,dc=utdallas,dc=edu nfsvers=3 proto=tcp
> /proj   ldap //foobar.utdallas.edu/ 
> nismapname=auto_proj,dc=utdallas,dc=edu nfsvers=3 proto=tcp
> /net    -hosts
>

I haven't played with Linux's autofs and when I did my look at it was  
shallow. From what you have here it looks like foobar.utdallas.edu is  
a NFS v3 server that offers a pair of directory hierarchies. He's  
mounting one of them on locally as /home and another as /proj. If you  
want to do that in FreeBSD this should get you going.


*** /etc/amd/amd.conf ***

[ global ]
         browsable_dirs =                        no
         map_type =                                      file
         mount_type =                            nfs
         search_path =                           /etc

         auto_dir =                                      /.amd
         cache_duration =                        30
         log_file =                                      syslog:daemon
         log_options =                           fatal,error
         print_pid =                                     yes
         pid_file =                                      /var/run/ 
amd.pid
         restart_mounts =                        yes
         selectors_in_defaults =         no

[ /home ]
         map_name =                                      /etc/amd/ 
home.map

[ /proj ]
         map_name =                                      /etc/amd/ 
proj.map

*** /etc/amd/home.map ***

/defaults       type:=nfs;opts:=tcp,intr,nodev,nosuid,umount,vers=3;\
                         rhost:=foobar.utdallas.edu;rfs:=/home/${key}

*                       fs:=${autodir}/home/${key}

*** /etc/amd/proj.map ***

/defaults       type:=nfs;opts:=tcp,intr,nodev,nosuid,umount,vers=3;\
                         rhost:=foobar.utdallas.edu;rfs:=/proj/${key}

*                       fs:=${autodir}/proj/${key}


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In the map files you'll need to make sure that the rfs entry matches  
the directory tree that foobar.utdallas.edu is exporting. e.g. if you  
would manually mount the directory under FreeBSD like this:

      # mount_nfs -o tcp,intr,nodev,nosuid foobar.utdallas.edu:/home/ 
pschmehl /home/pschmehl

or the fstab entry that you would use looks like this:

      # foobar.utdallas.edu:/home/pschmehl /home/pschmehl nfs  
noauto,tcp,intr 0 0

Then the rfs entry should look like this:

      ...;rfs:=/home/${key}

This setup assumes that you've exported the directory try with  
FreeBSD's equivalent of the -alldirs option. This option allows you to  
mount any point under the exported tree rather than forcing you to  
mount the entire filesystem. A typical setup on FreeBSD would be to  
export /home with --alldirs then an NFS client can mount /home/ 
cshilton or /home/jbauer or whatever.

Hope this helps

-- Chris

Sorry if I've got some minor bobbles in the syntax on the mount or  
fstab lines.






> So how do I tranlsate that into FreeBSD amd conf and map files?   
> It's got me stumped.
>
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> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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