On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 09:30 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > I have been working on these for a couple of weeks. I even spent the > time updating to the latest upstreams and fixing up the packaging.
Do you have this in a VCS somewhere? I'd be happy to contribute. > However, the consensus seems to be to just get rid of them since no > one seems to care for them. Libnss-ldap has been broken for at least > 2 releases. I'm not convinced the packages are so broken they're unusable for most users. Another situation in which libpam-ldap is still useful: with nss-pam-ldapd the LDAP servers configured are the same for NSS and PAM while pam_ldap can also be provided with a config parameter that would allow LDAP authentication against a different LDAP server per authentication service. > I am also concerned about the high popcon, however, so far I have been > unsuccessful in actually finding a user that actually uses it that > could do any real testing for me.. I am not particularly familiar > with ldap myself. As I'm the maintainer of nss-pam-ldapd I can test the packages in my test environment but I don't use it anywhere in production. Perhaps someone from Ubuntu is also interested in helping out. -- -- arthur - adej...@debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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