[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#590998: ldap-utils: centralize LDAP parameters

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 590998 libpam-ldap
thanks

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 04:10:36PM -0400, Patricio Rojo wrote:
> I apologize if this is the wrong package in which to file this wishlist. 
> I'll appreciate forwarding in that case.

> I manage users in one machine with LDAP.  I'm very suprised that I need 
> to change the address of my ldap server, I had to edit each of

> /etc/ldap/ldap.conf
> /etc/pam_ldap.conf
> /etc/libnss-ldap.conf

> Wouldn't make more sense to have only one line with such information, 
> and maybe that file can be specified from the others?

/etc/ldap/ldap.conf is a configuration file for the LDAP library. 
/etc/pam_ldap.conf and /etc/libnss-ldap.conf are configuration files for
specific applications that use this library.  The two should not be
conflated; there are a number of reasons why you may use different values
for each (and the syntax between the config files isn't even the same).

However, the nss_ldap and pam_ldap config files *could* be merged; this has
already been done in Ubuntu.  So this is something that the maintainer of
these packages could at least consider doing in Debian, I think. 
Reassigning to libpam-ldap.

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