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Date:      Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:46:04 +0200
From:      Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] ypldap testing against OpenLDAP and Microsoft Active Directory
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On 10/06/16 16:29, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On 6/9/16 6:49 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 09/06/2016 18:34, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>>> There is still value to ypldap as it is now, and getting feedback from
>>> users (especially Active Directory) would be very useful.
>>> If someone could document a configuration which uses IPSEC or OpenSSH
>>> forwarding, that would be nice.
>>>
>>> In future, maybe someone in OpenBSD or FreeBSD will implement things
>>> like
>>> LDAP over SSL.
>>
>> What advantages does ypldap offer over nss-pam-ldapd (in ports) ?
>> nss-pam-ldapd can use both ldap+STARTTLS or ldaps to encrypt data in
>> transit, and I find it works very well for using OpenLDAP as a central
>> account database.  I believe it works with AD, but haven't tried that
>> myself.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
>>
>
> We used nss-pam-ldapd quite successfully in the freebsd.org cluster
> during our transition away from YP/NIS, for what it's worth.

Did you try the OpenLDAP nssov overlay? It replaces nslcd by 
reimplementing the protocol spoken between nslcd and nss_ldap/pam_ldap 
directly inside slapd. This allows slapd to cache or replicate the data 
locally without resorting to the broken nscd.



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