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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:25:03 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LDAP authentication confusion
Message-ID:  <1373916303.17449.140661255966229.44609E69@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013, at 14:19, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
> 
> More than that. In my opinion it should be updated by replacing nss_ldap
> and pam_ldap with nss-pam-ldapd which splits the job of both into a
> shared daemon talking to the LDAP server and small stubs linked into the
> NSS / PAM using process talking to the local daemon. This allows useable
> timeout handling and client certificates with save permissions.
> 

And if the daemon ever crashes, we can't login to our customer servers
(assuming they nuked our local account because they have root access).

That's the one issue I have with that daemon and why we haven't migrated
to it. We should re-evaluate it, though.



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