There’s one more difference that might trip you up: wildcards. The traditional wildcard mountpoint in autofs maps is an asterisk (”*”).

For some reason, early implementations of LDAP-based autofs maps used a slash (”/”) instead as the wildcard key:


dn: automountKey=\/, automountMapName=auto.facvs, ou=Autofs, […],o=Disney,c=US
automountKey: /
objectClass: top
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: -vers=3 &:/disk1