Bug#573108: Clarify what ldap support means.

2010-03-09 Thread Bdale Garbee 
tags 573108 +pending
thanks

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:37:11 +1100, Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com wrote:
 a description like ... will help me remember why this package exists.

Good point!

Since I don't personally admin anything LDAP-related, I have at best a
weak understanding of it myself... ;-)  

I'll update the description on my next upload. 

Bdale


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Bug#573108: Clarify what ldap support means.

2010-03-09 Thread Trent W. Buck 
Bdale Garbee wrote:
 Since I don't personally admin anything LDAP-related, I have at best
 a weak understanding of it myself... ;-)

Let me emphasize that my description was only a GUESS.  I use sudo and
ldap (but not sudo-ldap); my sudoers is just a flat file distributed
by puppet.



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Bug#573108: Clarify what ldap support means.

2010-03-08 Thread Trent W. Buck 
Package: sudo-ldap
Version: 1.7.2p1-1.2
Severity: wishlist

Currently this variant describes itself as

This version is built with LDAP support.

This puzzled me, because libpam-ldap already allows you to perform
authentication via LDAP -- did sudo-ldap only exist for people that
hated pam and wanted to talk directly to the LDAP database?

In discussion it was suggested that the purpose of sudo-ldap is that
it allows the sudoers database to be distributed as LDAP objects
instead of a flat /etc/sudoers file.  If that's the case, a
description like

This version is built with LDAP support.  This allows the sudoers
database to be distributed via LDAP (instead of /etc/sudoers).
Authentication is still performed via pam.

will help me remember why this package exists.

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