AutoFS With LDAP Support Release Notes

AutoFS With LDAP Support
Limitations
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Limitations
The following are limitations for AutoFS with LDAP support:
• AutoFS with LDAP support can only retrieve automount maps from an Netscape
Directory Server.
• The nisObject automount schema contains three attributes, cn, nisMapEntry and
nisMapName. cn is an attribute that ignores case-matching. Consider the following
example:
# an indirect map auto_test
test1 server1:/source
TEST1 server2:/source
In the above example, because the cn attribute is case-insensitive, the LDAP considers
“cn=TEST1, nisMapName=auto_test” to be a redefinition of “cn=test1,
nisMapName=auto_test”.
Using the nisObject automount map schema, capital letters are not significant. In other
words, if two keys have names that are only different by the use of capital letters, then
one of those entries will be rendered inoperable because the other one is the only one that
can be retrieved.
Do not use any keys that have capital letters and only differ from other keys by those
capital letters.