Re: [nssldap] nss_ldap under Solaris 10

["Paul B. Henson" <henson [at] acm.org>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> I use it on a regular basis on 32-bit FC and RHEL5; on these platforms
> its very good, but segfaults when built on RHEL5 x86_64 platforms with a
> 64-bit libnss_ldap.so.2 (the author is aware of this).

Hmm, all of our production Linux is 64-bit.

> > but it splits the nss calls from the ldap library.
>
> No it doesn't, it "splits" nss from pam. All nss calls still do whatever
> /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured for.

I believe what he means is that the client code making nss calls does not
involve the LDAP library.


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