Bug 97191

Summary:	nss_compat missing support for ldap
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Greg Renzelman <greg.renzelman>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	brenno, fweimer, rhbugzilla
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Description Greg Renzelman 2003-06-11 12:55:29 UTC

Description of problem:

The nss_compat NSS module only supports NIS and NIS+ as the source for 
expanding "+" and "-" lines in the password file. We are using a global account 
database based on Active Directory (through nss_ldap). This limitation of 
nss_compat doesn't allow us to use it.

How reproducible:

The following configuration in /etc/nsswitch.conf is not supported:

passwd: compat ldap
passwd_compat: ldap

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2003-08-05 16:40:46 UTC

This should work in current RHEL3 beta1 (glibc-2.3.2-58 and later).
Backporting it to 2.1 is too risky.