Comments on: Integrating Leopard Autofs with LDAP http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/ technologist defying the peter principle Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin Guthrie http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-16298 Colin Guthrie Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:09:50 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-16298 Thanks for the excellent post - it helped me a lot. I did find that when I set this up recently the automountKey=/ bit didn't work. Could be things have moved on in the last two years at the OSX side, but using a key of * worked fine. I wrote up my experience over here: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/07/integrating-login-and-home-directory-on-os-x-leopard-clients/ Thanks again. Thanks for the excellent post – it helped me a lot.

I did find that when I set this up recently the automountKey=/ bit didn’t work. Could be things have moved on in the last two years at the OSX side, but using a key of * worked fine.

I wrote up my experience over here: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/07/integrating-login-and-home-directory-on-os-x-leopard-clients/

Thanks again.

]]> By: Integrating login and home directory on OS X Leopard clients « Colin.Guthr.ie http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-16297 Integrating login and home directory on OS X Leopard clients « Colin.Guthr.ie Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:58:13 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-16297 [...] thanks go to Rajeev Karamchedu for his excellent series of posts on this topic. The information he gives is pretty much bang on. The most important part is about [...] [...] thanks go to Rajeev Karamchedu for his excellent series of posts on this topic. The information he gives is pretty much bang on. The most important part is about [...]

]]> By: rajeev karamchedu http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-5644 rajeev karamchedu Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:07:39 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-5644 That's a great point indeed about most places not having the ability to make LDAP changes. I am spoiled by the fact that my teams do it all (LDAP, Unix and Mac!) Can you think of a tool that will allow for remote management of Mac OS X ? Workgroup Manager comes to my mind and we push out a lot of company wide policies using it to all Macs. If there are other tools that you know of that allow for remote management of mac clients, it'll be great if you can do a write up on it on your blog (which is cool, BTW) That’s a great point indeed about most places not having the ability to make LDAP changes.

I am spoiled by the fact that my teams do it all (LDAP, Unix and Mac!)

Can you think of a tool that will allow for remote management of Mac OS X ? Workgroup Manager comes to my mind and we push out a lot of company wide policies using it to all Macs.

If there are other tools that you know of that allow for remote management of mac clients, it’ll be great if you can do a write up on it on your blog (which is cool, BTW)

]]> By: Greg Neagle http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-5638 Greg Neagle Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:11:43 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-5638 Migrating to the new schema is preferred, but OS X admins can't always convince the people who run the LDAP servers to make changes for them. Managing Directory Services configurations is a standard OS X admin task; one assumes OS X admins have a way to manage these configurations. I use radmind, but there are lots of tools to use. The relevant info is in /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/DSLDAPv3PlugInConfig.plist and /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/SearchNodeConfig.plist Migrating to the new schema is preferred, but OS X admins can’t always convince the people who run the LDAP servers to make changes for them.

Managing Directory Services configurations is a standard OS X admin task; one assumes OS X admins have a way to manage these configurations. I use radmind, but there are lots of tools to use. The relevant info is in /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/DSLDAPv3PlugInConfig.plist and /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/SearchNodeConfig.plist

]]> By: rajeev karamchedu http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-5636 rajeev karamchedu Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:38:20 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-5636 @Greg I would recommend folks to migrate to the new automount schema. The old nisMap schema is on its way out. Directory Utility stores the information as xml files on the system itself. Could be a problem if one is managing a large number of OS X clients with LDAP integration. The good news is that if you did have the NetInfo entries in LDAP and were getting your automount entries from LDAP that way, it will still work! @Greg

I would recommend folks to migrate to the new automount schema. The old nisMap schema is on its way out.

Directory Utility stores the information as xml files on the system itself. Could be a problem if one is managing a large number of OS X clients with LDAP integration.

The good news is that if you did have the NetInfo entries in LDAP and were getting your automount entries from LDAP that way, it will still work!

]]> By: Greg Neagle http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/comment-page-1/#comment-5635 Greg Neagle Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:32:15 +0000 http://rajeev.name/2007/12/09/integrating-leopard-autofs-with-ldap/#comment-5635 Leopard's autofs only supports the automount schema definition, but if you have the older nisMap schema, you can use Directory Utility to edit the LDAP mappings to work with the nisMap schema. The master file for autofa is hardcoded to auto_master, but it's a simple matter to edit the local /etc/auto_master file to point it at a "auto.master" file in LDAP: Change +auto_master # Use directory service to: auto.master # Use directory service More on integrating Leopard's autofs with LDAP here: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/autofs-in-leopard Leopard’s autofs only supports the automount schema definition, but if you have the older nisMap schema, you can use Directory Utility to edit the LDAP mappings to work with the nisMap schema.

The master file for autofa is hardcoded to auto_master, but it’s a simple matter to edit the local /etc/auto_master file to point it at a “auto.master” file in LDAP:

Change +auto_master # Use directory service
to: auto.master # Use directory service

More on integrating Leopard’s autofs with LDAP here: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/autofs-in-leopard

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