Re: Importing OpenLDAP into base

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 28 Apr 2008, at 14:37, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > From what I've heard "nss_ldap" and "pam_ldap" implementation tend  
> > towards
> > being complicated because they have to deal with networking issues.  
> > Would
> > it perhaps make sense to have an "ldapbind" daemon (similar to  
> > "ypbind")
> > and keep this plugins really light weight?
>
> Do you know if this sort of thing is defined anywhere?

I'm not aware of such a definition. I've just seen LDAP behaving  
really badly
on an old Linux system (Red Hat 8).

> I like the idea of doing some stuff automagically like interpolating  
> the
> domainname into the basedn,

What domain name? The domain part of the hostname?

I would actually prefer something which is configured like Solaris and/ 
or Linux
to make integration into heterogeneous networks easier.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/