Hi, I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir also on local system. So I added a new user account and changed auto.home as follows: test1 -rw,hard,intr /home/test1 * -rw,hard,intr nfs1:/export/users/& But this stuff is not working. If I change test1 user's home dir to '/opt/test1', it works fine. Log messages indicate: 'umount_autofs_indirect: ask umount returned busy /home'. I have some LDAP users logged on to system. Do I need to tell them to logout to successfully reload autofs? Any clues on this would be really helpful. Thanks, CS.
On Monday 25 January 2010 19:35:07 Carlos Santana wrote:> Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir > also on local systemIf it's a local user you want (with its fils on local system) why are you using the autofs facility? Isn't it just a matter of creating the user locally and make sure it resides in the local system's /etc/passwd file? Did you check /etc/nsswitch.conf to find out the order the databases are searched? What do you get when you do: getent passwd | grep test1 HTH, Jorge
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user > accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this > setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir > also on local system. So I added a new user account and changed > auto.home as follows: > > test1 ? ? ? ? -rw,hard,intr ? /home/test1 > * ? ? ? ? ? ? -rw,hard,intr ? nfs1:/export/users/& > > But this stuff is not working. If I change test1 user's home dir to > '/opt/test1', it works fine. Log messages indicate: > 'umount_autofs_indirect: ask umount returned busy /home'. I have some > LDAP users logged on to system. Do I need to tell them to logout to > successfully reload autofs? Any clues on this would be really helpful.You can't use the path /home because the autofs uses it to mount the home directories. cd /home df . Your entry for test1 is trying to mount /home/test1 on /home/test1 which won't work. The local user can not use the path /home as long as autofs is using /home. -- Enjoy global warming while it lasts.