[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#471354: Bug#471354: closed by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> (Re: Bug#471354: libgnutls13: gnutls13=1.4.4-3 causes pam_ldap failures based on transfer size)

[Chris Adams]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> Can we check whether my workaround will be included in pam_ldap  
>>> first?
>>> Otherwise we're in the situation where some users will not be able  
>>> to
>>> authenticate against LDAP without any obvious reason.
>>
>> Hello,
>> well I will just wait for a negative answer from you.
>>
>> Do you think this is severe enough to try to get a stable update in?
>
> Have you identified what fixes the problem?  To me it sounds like the
> decompression-leads-to-larger-output-than-input problem that was fixed
> some time ago.


This is probably correct - pulling in the libgnutls from testing also  
fixes the problem. In that case I'm going to try to get my workaround  
in libpam-ldap since fixing libgnutls would be a lot more work.

Chris
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