Arthur de Jong

Open Source / Free Software developer

Release 0.9.6 of nss-pam-ldapd

2015-06-14

This is an update for the 0.9 branch of nss-pam-ldapd that includes a few improvements. The branch has stabilised a bit and the current release should be reasonably stable.

The pynslcd implementation still is not considered as stable as nslcd.

A summary of the changes since 0.9.5:

  • fix a race condition in signal handling during start-up that would cause nslcd to exit if a signal (such as SIGUSR1 that can be sent when network status changes) is received
  • fix signed integer overflow on 32bit systems when using objectSid (thanks Geoffrey McRae)
  • allow longer configuration values (thanks Jed Liu)
  • add an nss_getgrent_skipmembers option to disable retrieving group members to improve performance in specific environments
  • add an nss_disable_enumeration option to disable full listing of all users and groups to improve performance in specific environments (thanks Andrew Elble)
  • implement an innetgr function in the Solaris NSS module

Get this release from the downloads section.

Ideas, comments and patches for functionality are more than welcome. Please drop a note on the nss-pam-ldapd-users mailing list with any ideas or patches you may have.