generate-autohome.pl [ > autohome_file]
generate-autohome.pl provides a simple command-line tool for manipulating
LDAP group information to create a home-directory automount file for autofs.
Autofs is the kernel automounter (almost complete SunOS style automounter)
under Linux (kernels 2.0.31 and higher).
The generate-autohome.pl was created to do away with the tedious task of
creating autohome files on the many (many many) linux server and workstations
in our
college.
generate-autohome.pl relies on the OpenLDAP utilities to get the group
information, as well as cron to run the autohomeupdate.sh. The
autohomeupdate.sh is used to backup and update the /etc/auto.home file.
generate-autohome.pl does not accept any command line options. It reads
information from an LDAP server, interprets the data and then dumps a autofs
file to standard out. This output then should be redirected into an autofs
config file. We use /etc/auto.home as a standard in
CNS
$includeFile
This is the location of the include file. The default value for this is
"/usr/local/etc/generate-autohome.include". Each line in the file should be
a username followed by a space then the full DNS name for a server. An
example of this would be:
->thompson math-cs.cns.uni.edu<-
$excludeFile
This is the location of the exclude file. The default value for this is
"/usr/local/etc/generate-autohome.exclude". Each line in the file should be
a username to exclude. An example of this would be:
->thompson<-
The exclude file has a higher priority than the include file. If a user is
in both files that person will be left out.
$DefaultMount
The DefaultMount is the default string used for mounting a home directory.
Autofs only allows one wild card in the config file, and because of this it
is usualy at the of the file.
$ldapsearchParams
The ldapsearchParams refers to the paramiters (or options) to send to the
ldapsearch command. We use " -x -P2 " for our current setup.
$ldapsearchArgs
The ldapsearchArgs refers to any addtional arguments that should be sent
after the paramiters. These arguments can be used to limit the search
results.
$ldapsearch
ldapsearch refers to the location of the ldapsearch binary. By default this
is "/usr/bin/ldapsearch".
If you find a bug please let me know email me at
thompson@cns.uni.edu.
Copyright (C) 2003 Aaron Thompson
thompson@cns.uni.edu
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. or visit
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Click here to view the source code online
Click here to download the script
