[Pkg-shadow-devel] ldap support

[Nicolas François]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0200, miek at miek.nl wrote:
> 
> I've seem to have missed some emails. I'm now subscribed
> to this list. I've also registered on alioth as 'miekg'
> 
> As to adding ldap support to the shadow utils in a sane way, I'm
> not sure how to proceed. I've filed a bug (in Ubuntu) about glibc.
> see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/239480
> 
> If you are able to write to your password database using libc,
> implementing this in the shadow utils is trivial...
> Right now libnss-* do not seems to have put-* functions...?

I would of course prefer this solution.

If you really want the ldap support to appear, another solution is to
implement it directly with some ldap libraries.

It was implemented that way in pwdutils.

-- 
Nekral