On 0725T1946, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <20140725211249.GA3933_at_brick.home>, Edward Tomasz > =?utf-8?Q?Napiera= > C5=82a?= writes: > > On 0725T1019, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > In message <20140724183353.GL1065_at_hub.FreeBSD.org>, Glen Barber writes: > > > > New Automounter > > > > > > > > Contact: Edward Tomasz Napieral/a <trasz_at_FreeBSD.org> > > > > > > > > Deficiencies in the current automounter, amd(8), are a recurring > > > > problem reported by many FreeBSD users. A new automounter is being > > > > developed to address these concerns. > > > > > > > > The automounter is a cleanroom implementation of functionality > > > > available in most other Unix systems, using proper kernel support > > > > implemented via an autofs filesystem. The automounter supports a > > > > standard map format, and will integrate with the Lightweight Directory > > > > Access Protocol (LDAP) service. > > > > > > Will it also integrate with NIS (as SunOS and Solaris do)? FreeBSD's amd > > > currently integrates with NIS as well. > > > > It's just a matter of testing, apart from a trivial shell script. > > Would you be able to help me with this? > > > > > Sure! Just point me in the direction of the patches. So, the autofs branch is here: https://github.com/trasz/autofs. Directory services integration is done by external executable, which is usually a shell script. There is an LDAP example, at etc/autofs/include_ldap. Script to integrate with other services (which would be include_nis or include_hesiod) needs to do the same - retrieve the map named at the command line and output it to stdout, in a proper format.Received on Sat Jul 26 2014 - 11:22:34 UTC
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