[Mageia-dev] nss-ldap missing ?

JA Magallón jamagallon at ono.com
Sat Feb 9 01:36:44 CET 2013


On 02/09/2013 12:31 AM, JA Magallón wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 01:41 AM, JA Magallón wrote:
>> On 02/07/2013 11:44 PM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>>> Le 07/02/2013 18:07, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>>>>> Is nss_ldap in the non-building package list, or is it deprecated
>>>>> and there is now another method to use ldap for authentication ?
>>>>
>>>> It was broken (new automake + undefined reference to
>>>> `__libc_lock_*) and when investigating I found that it is dead and
>>>> removed from several distros with suggestions to use nss-pam-ldapd
>>>> (Fedora commit removing it also mentions sssd)
>>> BTW, if nss_ldap has been dropped, we could also drop pam_ldap, I
>>> don't much interest of allowing to authenticate users unknown from
>>> the system...
>>
>> Not _could_, but _should_. Currently pam_ldap requires nss_ldap, that
>> is not in the repos no more (not only not rebuilt, but absent....)
>> And if mcc/drakxtools can be used to configure ldap, migrate everything
>> to nss-pam-ldapd...
>>
>
> Any decission on this ? I can move my servers to nss-pam-ldapd
> if thats the way to go...

I looked at some boxes on Uni with CentOS and use also nss-pam-ldapd (and
CentOS is a not-so-up-to-date distro...). I migrated my Mageia boxes to
that (both mga2 and mga3) and all is working fine.

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J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...


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