There is currently no effort to get a better support for LDAP in shadow. (patch welcome, though)
LDAP is currently supported by shadow only when the libc (NSS) or PAM provides support for LDAP. IIRC libc developpers were already not very happy having to support LDAP (or maybe even shadow files). And the only write operation PAM supports is for writting passwords (I don't think it will ever change). IMHO it would be better to have wrappers like adduser to support different type of database. If somebody wants to work on LDAP support, pwdutils might give some ideas for starting. (IIRC it used to be the same code base or shared some APIs, and it supports LDAP) -- chfn only understands /etc/passwd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49604 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
