On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:32:48PM -0300, Thiago Kenji Okada wrote: > nss-pam-ldapd is actively maintained while nss_ldap/pam_ldap are not > updated in a while. nss-pam-ldapd is more robust too (I had a similar > problem like https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33672 that didn't occur with > nss-pam-ldapd; and according to that bug report actually a > nss_ldap/pam_ldap setup is simply broken). According to the author ( > http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/) nss-pam-ldapd is faster and more > easily to debug (I didn't measured performance, but indeed nss-pam-ldapd is > easier to debug, since it's service nslcd have a nice log output). I think > Fedora and Mageia uses nss-pam-ldapd for default instead nss_ldap/pam_ldap. > Even our Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenLDAP_Authentication) > is recommending nss-pam-ldapd instead of nss_ldap/pam_ldap (actually, if > you follow our Wiki using nss_ldap/pam_ldap you will have a non-working > LDAP setup). > > So I suggest to drop nss_ldap/pam_ldap to AUR and put nss-pam-ldapd on > [Extra] repository. > -- > Thiago Kenji Okada <thiago.mas...@gmail.com> > PGP Key: EEC09705
Looks like there's already a feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32911 @Tom and Allan, you guys maintain the packages that would be replaced here -- either of you have an interest in adopting this? d