[Mageia-dev] nss-ldap missing ?

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