[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)

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> On 2008-03-17 Chris Adams <chris at improbable.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> >>Upgrading to the version in testing solves the problem.
>> >
>> >Ok. I am marking the bug as fixed in that version. Since this is not
>> >rc (speak up if you disagree), that is probably going to be the only
>> >action I am taking.
>
>> 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.

/Simon