[aur-general] nss-pam-ldap on AUR

[Thiago Kenji Okada]

Ok, I'll try to update the PKGBUILD to the last version (and include the
systemd service file) and will contact the maintainer.

2012/10/15 Jonathan Steel <mail at jsteel.org>

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:54:50PM -0300, Thiago Kenji Okada wrote:
> > I am trying to setup LDAP and NSS/PAM authentication on my laboratory,
> but
> > had some serious issues with nss_ldap (the system boot would lock-up when
> > udev starts), so I was looking for alternatives when I found the
> nss-pam-ldap
> > module (http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/), which works great.
> >
> > The problem is, we have three different nss-pam-ldap PKGBUILDs on AUR,
> and
> > neither of them is good (no one has systemd service files, all of them
> are
> > out of date, one doesn't even install correctly). I would maintain my own
> > package (that is a mix of some of these packages), but since there is
> already
> > three differents packages I choose to not do so (well, I can't even
> think of
> > a appropriate name since all of them are taken).
> >
> > So we have a problem here, I can maintain a package since it's of my own
> > interest (at least until I discover how to use the nss_ldap module
> without
> > problems), but I can't simple create another one. Here are the three
> > nss-pam-ldap modules on AUR:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62383
> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38167
> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61149
>
> I have deleted nslcd as the maintainer admitted it was only created because
> nss-ldapd was not working.
>
> It looks like it should be called "nss-pam-ldapd" (same as upstream). The
> maintainer of that updated a package a month ago, so worth sending them an
> email to help fix/update the package.  If they do not respond within two
> weeks
> we can disown it so you can update it.
>
> --
> Jonathan Steel
>



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Thiago Kenji Okada <thiago.mast3r at gmail.com>
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