release 0.8.7 of nss-pam-ldapd

[Arthur de Jong <arthur [at] arthurdejong.org>]

This is an update for the 0.8 series that includes a few fixes and some
work on the pynslcd implementation. The 0.8 series is getting more and
more stable and there are not many issues reported. It is planned to be
stabilised a bit now with work continuing on the pynslcd implementation.

A summary of the changes since 0.8.6:
* log the first 10 search results in debug mode to make debugging easier
  (patch by Matthijs Kooijman)
* provide more detailed logging information for LDAP errors, this should
  especially help for TLS related problems (based on a patch by Mel
  Flynn)
* fix logging of invalid pam_authz_search value
* when doing DNS queries for SRV records recognise default ldap and
  ldaps ports
* make whether or not to do case-sensitive filtering configurable (patch
  by Matthew L. Dailey)
* document the fact that each thread opens it's own connection (patch by
  Chris Hiestand)
* some small portability improvements
* try to prevent some of the Broken pipe messages in nslcd
* increase buffer used for pam_authz_search as suggested by Chris J
  Arges
* pynslcd now handles privileged requests correctly
* pynslcd now supports attribute mapping using the lower() and upper()
  functions

pynslcd, the Python implementation of nslcd that is included in
nss-pam-ldapd should now be mostly useful for test environments and
testing is welcomed.

More information can be found at:
  http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/

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