FS#34081 - [nss_ldap] [pam_ldap] Substitute nss_ldap/pam_ldap from Extra for nss-pam-ldapd

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thiago Okada (m45t3r) - Friday, 01 March 2013, 03:27 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Friday, 15 March 2013, 11:34 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
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  FS#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 module 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. So I suggest to drop nss_ldap/pam_ldap to AUR and put nss-pam-ldapd on Extra repository.
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Friday, 15 March 2013, 11:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented

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