[Mageia-dev] nss-ldap missing ?

Sat Feb 9 00:31:51 CET 2013

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...
+
+> bran:~# urpmi pam_ldap
+> A requested package cannot be installed:
+> pam_ldap-186-4.mga3.i586 (due to unsatisfied nss_ldap[>= 217])
+> Continue installation anyway? (Y/n)
+> While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
+> A requested package cannot be installed:
+> pam_ldap-186-4.mga3.i586 (due to unsatisfied nss_ldap[>= 217])
+> Continue installation anyway?
+>
+
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+