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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:43:01 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Feature request (pam/nss ldap, nsswitch ldap integration)
Message-ID:  <20041030114301.GB960@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041030112057.GD7262@bingo.tenfour>
References:  <20041030024557.53081.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com> <20041030112057.GD7262@bingo.tenfour>

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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:20:58PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> Trouble is openldap is one of those things everyone wants to configure
> themselves - do you enable SASL support or not, what backends do you use
> etc?

IIRC SASL is pretty mandatory to correctly implement LDAP v3. Bigger
question is GSSAPI (Kerberos 5!) and the backend.

[..]
> And it raises other questions, for example how do you handle mergemaster
> when half your accounts are in LDAP and not the system databases?

You should _not_ put system accounts into LDAP, that's that just wrong.
So having them in the local database (whatever type that is) should work
fine with mergemaster.

Joerg



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