Description of problem:

I run

ipa-client-install --no-ntp --automount-location default --principal=admin --password="xxxx"

This works on RHEL7, i.e. the automount location is added to sssd config and autofs works afterwards.

Running the same command on RHEL8, I get this error:

Configuring automount:
Automount configuration failed: CalledProcessError(Command ['/usr/sbin/ipa-client-automount', '--debug', '-U', '--location', 'default'] returned non-zero exit status 2: '')

The overall ipa-client-install command thinks, it was sucessfull, though:

The ipa-client-install command was successful

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-client-install 4.9.6 on RHEL8
(ipa-client-install 4.6.8 on RHEL7)

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run ipa-client-install command with --automount-location

Actual results:
Fails with "Automount configuration failed" as mentioned above

Expected results:
succeeds same as on RHEL7 systems and configures automount-location

Additional info:
If I run the ipa-client-automount separately after running ipa-client-install it does succeed:

/usr/sbin/ipa-client-automount -U --location default

Searching for IPA server...
IPA server: DNS discovery
Location: default
Configured /etc/idmapd.conf
Restarting sssd, waiting for it to become available.
Started autofs