On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:01:04 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 There is a bigger problem here, if 'local_user1' and 'ad_user1' are actually the same person i.e. 'local_user1' is fred and 'ad_user1' is fred, then they cannot both exist with the same username. You cannot have a user in /etc/passwd with the same username in AD. Rowland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
