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 reported bugs, has some portability and documentation improvements, and has a few feature changes. Communication between nslcd and the NSS module was improved, support for StartTLS was added, support for rootbinddn/pw was removed, shadow information is now only returned for root users, several problems in user to groups mappings were fixed, and a number of improvements to the Debian packaging were made.
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