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AUTOFS_LDAP_AUTH.CONF(5)			      AUTOFS_LDAP_AUTH.CONF(5)

NAME
       autofs_ldap_auth.conf - autofs LDAP authentication configuration

DESCRIPTION
       LDAP  authenticated  binds, TLS encrypted connections and certification
       may be used by setting appropriate values in the autofs	authentication
       configuration  file  and	 configuring  the LDAP client with appropriate
       settings.     The    default    location	   of	  this	   file	    is
       /etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf.  If this file exists it will be used to es‐
       tablish whether TLS or authentication should be used.

       An example of this file is:

	 <?xml version="1.0" ?>
	 <autofs_ldap_sasl_conf
		 usetls="yes"
		 tlsrequired="no"
		 authrequired="no"
		 authtype="DIGEST-MD5"
		 user="xyz"
		 secret="abc"
	 />

       If TLS encryption is to be used the location of the Certificate Author‐
       ity certificate must be set within the LDAP client configuration in or‐
       der to validate the server certificate. If, in  addition,  a  certified
       connection  is  to  be used then the client certificate and private key
       file locations must also be configured within the LDAP client.

OPTIONS
       This files contains a single XML	 element,  as  shown  in  the  example
       above, with several attributes.

       The possible attributes are:

       usetls="yes"|"no"
	      Determines  whether  an  encrypted connection to the ldap server
	      should be attempted.

       tlsrequired="yes"|"no"
	      This flag tells whether the ldap connection must	be  encrypted.
	      If  set  to  "yes", the automounter will fail to start if an en‐
	      crypted connection cannot be established.

       authrequired="yes"|"no"|"autodetect"|"simple"
	      This option tells whether an  authenticated  connection  to  the
	      ldap server is required in order to perform ldap queries. If the
	      flag is set to yes, only sasl authenticated connections will  be
	      allowed.	If  it	is set to no then authentication is not needed
	      for ldap server connections. If it is set to autodetect then the
	      ldap server will be queried to establish a suitable sasl authen‐
	      tication	mechanism. If no suitable mechanism can be found, con‐
	      nections to the ldap server are made without authentication. Fi‐
	      nally, if it is set to simple, then simple  authentication  will
	      be used instead of SASL.

       authtype="GSSAPI"|"LOGIN"|"PLAIN"|"ANONYMOUS"|"DIGEST-MD5"
	      This attribute can be used to specify a preferred authentication
	      mechanism.
	       In normal operations, the automounter will attempt to authenti‐
	      cate  to	the  ldap server using the list of supportedSASLmecha‐
	      nisms obtained from the directory	 server.   Explicitly  setting
	      the  authtype will bypass this selection and only try the mecha‐
	      nism specified.

       user="<username>"
	      This attribute holds the authentication identity used by authen‐
	      tication	mechanisms that require it.  Legal values for this at‐
	      tribute include any printable characters that can be used by the
	      selected authentication mechanism.

       secret="<password>"
	      This  attribute  holds  the secret used by authentication mecha‐
	      nisms that require it. Legal values for this  attribute  include
	      any  printable  characters  that can be used by the selected au‐
	      thentication mechanism.

       clientprinc="<GSSAPI client principal>"
	      When using GSSAPI authentication, this attribute is consulted to
	      determine	 the  principal name to use when authenticating to the
	      directory server. By  default,  this  will  be  set  to  "autof‐
	      sclient/<fqdn>@<REALM>.

       credentialcache="<external credential cache path>"
	      When  using GSSAPI authentication, this attribute can be used to
	      specify an externally configured credential cache that  is  used
	      during  authentication.	By default, autofs will setup a memory
	      based credential cache.

SEE ALSO
       auto.master(5),

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>.

				  19 Feb 2010	      AUTOFS_LDAP_AUTH.CONF(5)
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