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* [gentoo-dev] Re: Policy violation possible (concerns openldap/nss_ldap)
  @ 2003-06-19 17:55 99% ` paul
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From: paul @ 2003-06-19 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw
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Martin Lesser wrote:
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> So the symlink was overwritten with the vanilla configuration what - in
> our case - caused several applications which depend on ldap to not work
> properly any longer. That was really bad.
> 
> How can one prevent such an IMO unacceptable behavior of overwriting
> config-files which are symlinks? Should this be seen as bug in
> gentoo/emerge?
> 
> Have the changes described above to be reported as bug in nss_ldap?
> 
> How can we ensure the integrity of conf-files used by more than one
> package when different packages use different locations for the *same*
> configuration (a bad thing anyway)?
>
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFAIK /etc/openldap/ldap.conf is used 
by the openldap clients like ldapsearch ldapadd... whereas 
/etc/ldap.conf is for pam_ldap and nss_ldap from PADL. They shouldn't be 
the same file at all. Despite sharing some common directives such as 
HOST and BASE, im not sure if the pam_ldap/nss_ldap specific options are 
silently ignored by the openldap clienttools. If that is true, 
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf could be overwritten by pam_ldap/nss_ldap during 
install but not the other way round.

kind regards  Paul


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