release 0.6.1 of nss-ldapd

[Arthur de Jong-3]

A new release of nss-ldapd was made which fixes a number of bugs in the
0.6 release. This release is available from:
  http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/nss-ldapd/

This release has some small portability improvements and improvements in
the documentation. The communication between nslcd and the NSS module
was improved, support for StartTLS was added, support for rootbinddn/pw
was removed, shadow information is now only returned for root users,
several problems in user to groups mappings were fixed and a number of
improvements to the Debian packaging were made.

For more information and changes in this release, please see the URL
above. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the feedback
already provided.

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-- arthur - arthur@... - http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur --

[Howard Chu]

For anyone interested, I've released an NSS overlay for slapd in OpenLDAP's
contrib/slapd-modules/nssov directory. This overlay uses the same protocol as
Arthur de Jong's nss-ldapd, but uses slapd to answer the requests directly
instead of going thru some other intermediate daemon. Since the overlay is
configured inside slapd, more of your LDAP configuration is centralized in a
single place, making overall administration simpler. It offers most of the
advantages of nss-ldapd, and also provides the possibility for local caching
of remotely mastered LDAP credentials (just use back-ldap+pcache), full
synchronization for disconnected operation (just use syncrepl), etc. etc.

Feedback welcome, here or on the openldap-technical mailing list. Currently it
is only in CVS HEAD; may be released in 2.4.11.
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   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/