FreeIPA Automounting NFS

AlyRagab

Dears,
i have FreeIPA System installed in CentOS 7 and FreeIPA Client in Ubuntu 14.04 all users authentication works very well but i have a problem in the automount of the home directory.
the FreeIPA Server works also as NFS Server and it exports " /exports/home" for the user's home directory location.
i have added the NFS to the ipa services through the command line without any problem.
would any one advice me the details of getting the automounting works fine

scottalanmiller

What AutoFS setup have you done on your clients thus far?

scottalanmiller

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7672/mounting-an-nfs-home-share-on-centos-7-clients

AlyRagab

@scottalanmiller i have installed the autofs package then run

ipa-client-automount --location=default

scottalanmiller

I don't know how the IPA client handles that.

stacksofplates

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

Dears,
i have FreeIPA System installed in CentOS 7 and FreeIPA Client in Ubuntu 14.04 all users authentication works very well but i have a problem in the automount of the home directory.
the FreeIPA Server works also as NFS Server and it exports " /exports/home" for the user's home directory location.
i have added the NFS to the ipa services through the command line without any problem.
would any one advice me the details of getting the automounting works fine

Where is your automount location on the client end? It's best to put them under a sub-directory of /home (like /home/ipausers). Can you paste in your automount configs from the IPA interface?

AlyRagab

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

Dears,
i have FreeIPA System installed in CentOS 7 and FreeIPA Client in Ubuntu 14.04 all users authentication works very well but i have a problem in the automount of the home directory.
the FreeIPA Server works also as NFS Server and it exports " /exports/home" for the user's home directory location.
i have added the NFS to the ipa services through the command line without any problem.
would any one advice me the details of getting the automounting works fine

Where is your automount location on the client end? It's best to put them under a sub-directory of /home (like /home/ipausers). Can you paste in your automount configs from the IPA interface?

the location of the client is /ipausers , would you please show me an example of the automount configs from the IPA Web Interface

stacksofplates

Ok sorry for the long delay. I had to spin up a new IPA server since I don't have one running at home any more. Here's how the configs will work.

Initial indirect mount set up:

List of mounts:

Under auto.home, here is the key setup:

The * and & are wildcards and it will search the NFS export for the username you are logged in with and replace the & with it.

The home directory for the user needs to be set to use the automount:

stacksofplates

Since I'm using Puppet/Ansible, I don't really rely on the autofs setup from LDAP any longer. They don't change that often, so I just use the files. Puppet sticks all of my configs in the dump directory (auto.master.d) and adds the auto.whatever files in /etc for me. If there is a change, it will restart the autofs service automatically. The files seem to be more reliable than pulling from LDAP, but that's just anecdotal.

AlyRagab

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

Ok sorry for the long delay. I had to spin up a new IPA server since I don't have one running at home any more. Here's how the configs will work.

Initial indirect mount set up:

List of mounts:

Under auto.home, here is the key setup:

The * and & are wildcards and it will search the NFS export for the username you are logged in with and replace the & with it.

The home directory for the user needs to be set to use the automount:

Thank you so much , i have configured the IPA Server as you did , but in the Ubuntu client when i run the command

ipa-client-automount

i have the below error :

root@cs1:~# ipa-client-automount
Searching for IPA server...
IPA server: [u'ipa.server.local']
Location: default
Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes
Configured /etc/nsswitch.conf
Configured /etc/default/nfs-common
Configured /etc/idmapd.conf
rpcidmapd failed to restart: Command '/usr/sbin/service rpcidmapd restart '       returned non-zero exit status 1
rpcgssd failed to restart: Command '/usr/sbin/service rpcgssd restart ' returned     non-zero exit status 1
Restarting sssd, waiting for it to become available.
Started autofs

AlyRagab

@AlyRagab i also edited the /etc/nsswitch as " automount: files sss "
but the same problem , even i use the normal autofs configuration in ubuntu i could not automount the home directory.

stacksofplates

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab i also edited the /etc/nsswitch as " automount: files sss "
but the same problem , even i use the normal autofs configuration in ubuntu i could not automount the home directory.

After setting the local files did you restart rpcidmapd and rpcgssd?

You might have to set the automount to mount NFS version 3. I set up authentication once for an Ubuntu machine but not automounting. Everything I have is RHEL.

If you can't get the files working either I'd suspect it's something to do with Ubuntu.

If you're not using krb5p or krb5i you could just tell it to use NFS version 3 by default.

AlyRagab

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab i also edited the /etc/nsswitch as " automount: files sss "
but the same problem , even i use the normal autofs configuration in ubuntu i could not automount the home directory.

After setting the local files did you restart rpcidmapd and rpcgssd?

You might have to set the automount to mount NFS version 3. I set up authentication once for an Ubuntu machine but not automounting. Everything I have is RHEL.

If you can't get the files working either I'd suspect it's something to do with Ubuntu.

If you're not using krb5p or krb5i you could just tell it to use NFS version 3 by default.

i could not find the rpcidmapd and rpcgssd services
also i can mount the NFS share manually without any problem!

stacksofplates

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab i also edited the /etc/nsswitch as " automount: files sss "
but the same problem , even i use the normal autofs configuration in ubuntu i could not automount the home directory.

After setting the local files did you restart rpcidmapd and rpcgssd?

You might have to set the automount to mount NFS version 3. I set up authentication once for an Ubuntu machine but not automounting. Everything I have is RHEL.

If you can't get the files working either I'd suspect it's something to do with Ubuntu.

If you're not using krb5p or krb5i you could just tell it to use NFS version 3 by default.

i could not find the rpcidmapd and rpcgssd services
also i can mount the NFS share manually without any problem!

On my way home. I'llbe able to reply when I'm not driving.

stacksofplates

So first I'd run

ipa-client-automount --uninstall

Then I'd set the configs like this:

auto.master

 /home/ipa          /etc/auto.home

auto.home

*                   nfsserver:/<path-for-user-dir>/&

Then restart autofs

systemctl restart autofs

AlyRagab

i have tested it using Fedora and everything is working fine without any kind of troubleshooting , so why ubuntu is not simple as Fedora ?!!

stacksofplates

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

i have tested it using Fedora and everything is working fine without any kind of troubleshooting , so why ubuntu is not simple as Fedora ?!!

Ha that's a good question. I stick with RHEL based products when I can.

AlyRagab

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

i have tested it using Fedora and everything is working fine without any kind of troubleshooting , so why ubuntu is not simple as Fedora ?!!

Ha that's a good question. I stick with RHEL based products when I can.

i am planning from now to get rid of Ubuntu and use Fedora for Hosts and i am already work with CentOS

scottalanmiller

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@stacksofplates said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

@AlyRagab said in FreeIPA Automounting NFS:

i have tested it using Fedora and everything is working fine without any kind of troubleshooting , so why ubuntu is not simple as Fedora ?!!

Ha that's a good question. I stick with RHEL based products when I can.

i am planning from now to get rid of Ubuntu and use Fedora for Hosts and i am already work with CentOS

CentOS / RHEL user here too.

JaredBusch

The only Ubuntu system I have is my UniFi controller