Re: [nssldap] release 0.2 of nss-ldapd

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne [at] staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Monday, 18 June 2007, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:

> - Some interesting new feature could be added. E.g. offline support in
> nss_ldap. (For that of course a caching feature would need to be added to
> nss_ldap)

Would this really be useful ? I've been using nss_updatedb/nss_db to have 
offline support (in conjunction with pam_ccreds). The only shortcomings of 
this approach would require a real LDAP server (e.g. slapd proxy).

> Note: Some of the above stuff could also get realized by setting up a local
> instance of the OpenLDAP server as a caching proxy (having nss_ldap talking
> to it via LDAPI), but I still like the idea of a daemonized nss_ldap very
> much.

In disucssions with Howard Chu, he indicated that if he were to re-design 
nss_ldap, it would be a slapd caching proxy ...

Regards,
Buchan

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