Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2008-07-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Richard A Nelson] > I note that somewhere, in the chain of bugs you're reported on the > two packages, that your DNS setup is bad (localhost.localdomain) ! Almost. The DNS setup is just fine (as in /etc/resolv.conf is correct), but the local hostname is not the DNS name, because the host do not

Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2008-07-08 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: It would be very useful for Debian Edu if pam-ldap could use the SRV records from DNS to locate the server, and thus be able to use the same configuration setting for both pam and nss. I note that somewhere, in the chain of bugs you're reported on

Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2008-07-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
It would be very useful for Debian Edu if pam-ldap could use the SRV records from DNS to locate the server, and thus be able to use the same configuration setting for both pam and nss. See also bug #489363 to take it even further, to allow both pam and nss to derive the LDAP base settings automat

Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2007-11-26 Thread Christoph Scheurer
Hello, > This is already in the upstream bugzilla: > http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=80 > opened since 2002 :( it appears that more distros are doing this > themselves... I've just prodded upstream about the issue. Thanks for the quick response. I hope it will be included upstream

Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2007-11-26 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Christoph Scheurer wrote: There is a patch available though from the Mandriva CVS repository which is based on the mechanism from libnss-ldap for which SRV lookup works. The patch can be found at: http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/SPECS/pam_ldap/pam_ldap-176-dnscon

Bug#402697: libpam-ldap: patch to honor SRV RR

2007-11-18 Thread Christoph Scheurer
Package: libpam-ldap Version: 180-1.7 Followup-For: Bug #402697 Hello, I also tried using the DNS SRV RR of the form _ldap._tcp.fqdn with pam_ldap but still encountered the same problems as in the first bug report (which was on sarge). There is a patch available though from the Mandriva CVS repo