[Bug 491767] Review Request: nss-ldapd - An nsswitch module which uses directory servers

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--- Comment #22 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2009-04-21 15:07:42 EDT ---
> It does not; autofs doesn't use libc's nsswitch subsystem to look up automount
> information

I guess the "automount:" line in nsswitch.conf is confusing.  Lack of caching
of autofs lookups is the other half of the problem (or at least my problem). 
Completely off topic here, though.

> It doesn't need to live in /%{_lib}, but by convention nsswitch modules,
> following largely from what glibc does with its own modules, have been put
> there anyway.

Oh, good point.  I guess nss_ldap is the one that's out of sorts, placing its
libraries under /usr/lib instead.

> In this case, though, it avoids having to deal with file conflicts or working
> something out with alternatives (which I actually tried doing, but trying to
> select the "right" one without requiring manual intervention didn't lend itself
> to any elegant solutions).  

Indeed, I can't imagine how you would do this with alternatives.

So where do we go from here?  I think that from a packaging standpoint this is
good, but without support from the selinux policy it's not as useful and the
interactions with nscd are problematic (although it seems that at least some of
the problems I'm seeing are due to nscd's negative caching).

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