Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Substitute nss_ldap/pam_ldap from [Extra] to nss-pam-ldapd

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:32:48PM -0300, Thiago Kenji Okada wrote:

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 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/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 service 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 (actually, if you follow our Wiki using nss_ldap/pam_ldap you will have a non-working LDAP setup).

So I suggest to drop nss_ldap/pam_ldap to AUR and put nss-pam-ldapd on [Extra] repository. -- Thiago Kenji Okada PGP Key: EEC09705

Looks like there's already a feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32911 @Tom and Allan, you guys maintain the packages that would be replaced here -- either of you have an interest in adopting this? d