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 brings a lot of code cleanups and improvements, eliminating a lot of gcc warnings and implementing better structuring of code. A bug in the netgroup lookup code was fixed, and a timeout mechanism for communication between the client and server has been set up. Work is underway to include a complete test set for nss-ldapd functionality.
Original post by Denise Bedell and software by Elliott Back
