Rob Crittenden via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
writes:

[...]

> I don't think that first entry is a glob. I believe that * just means
> any. & is shorthand for the matching key so
>
> * -fstype=nfs4,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,tcp
> fileserver.chem.byu.edu:/export/home/students/&
>
> Just substitutes whatever the matching key (*) to &.
>
> I assume this is in some auto.home-like map.
>
> I don't claim to know a lot about autofs but you might try creating an
> auto.home-a, auto.home-b, etc.
>
> auto.master contains:
>
> /export/home/students/a       auto.home-a
> /export/home/students/b auto.home-b
>
> This of course assumes that the homedir in the user entry is
> /export/home/students/<letter>/<login>

I also have no idea if that will work, but running "automount -vvvf" in
a terminal very likely produces enough traces to see how the map is
handled. I think that could help investigating what might work.

Jochen

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