nss-ldapd is a (glibc) NSS module for doing name lookups to an LDAP server. This module allows retrieval of information about Unix accounts, groups, hosts, and other information from an LDAP directory. It is a fork from the nss_ldap module to do some architectural changes. This implementation splits the functionality into an NSS part and a local daemon to do the lookups. This works around a number of problems in the original implementation. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
This release fixes a number of bugs in the 0.6.2 release and tries to focus on stability. Some more improvements to the retry and fail-over mechanism have been made, and support for groups with up to around 150000 members has been added. The nslcd daemon can now be run under a separate user and group, and SASL authentication has been improved.

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