[nssldap] NSS overlay for slapd

[Howard Chu <hyc [at] highlandsun.com>]

For anyone interested, I've released an NSS overlay for slapd in OpenLDAP's 
contrib/slapd-modules/nssov directory. This overlay uses the same protocol as 
Arthur de Jong's nss-ldapd, but uses slapd to answer the requests directly 
instead of going thru some other intermediate daemon. Since the overlay is 
configured inside slapd, more of your LDAP configuration is centralized in a 
single place, making overall administration simpler. It offers most of the 
advantages of nss-ldapd, and also provides the possibility for local caching 
of remotely mastered LDAP credentials (just use back-ldap+pcache), full 
synchronization for disconnected operation (just use syncrepl), etc. etc.

Feedback welcome, here or on the openldap-technical mailing list. Currently it 
is only in CVS HEAD; may be released in 2.4.11.
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  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/