On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 15:57 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > In reading through all the (sparse) documentation I can find, it seems > that what I'd like to do is impossible, but it would be good to get > confirmation. > > We have some systems which will mostly be accessed by users > authenticated against and AD directory and with home directories > automounted from an NFS server. However these machines also have some > local accounts which are needed for technical reasons. > > For convenience sake, I'd like all the home directories to co-exist > under /home: > > /home/local_user1 > /home/local_user2 > /home/ad_user1 > ... > /home/ad_user2 > > I thought I could do with with direct maps, but can't seem to get it to > work without explicating all the AD users, which would be hard to That's right, direct mounts must be distinct mounts. > manage. The usual paradigm of using indirect maps like this: > > auto.master: /home /etc/auto.home > auto.home: * nfs_server:/home/& > > masks everything that is in the local /home, including any local home > directories. That's also right, once you mount over the top of something the contents of the directory that is covered are not available until the covering mount is umounted. That's just the way Unix mounts work, can't change that. > > Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do with autofs, or should I > just bite the bullet and move the local home directories to /local/home? Basically, yes, that's all you can do. I guess in doing this you are planning to change auto.home to something like: local_user1 localhost:/local/home/& (or just :/local/home/&) ... * nfs_server:/home/& which should do what you need, ie. still provide a single unified /home for all users. Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
