Thanks Howard! I am a bit snowed under now but I really look forward
to taking a look at this.
-- Luke
On 10/12/2008, at 5:30 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> I have just pushed a large patch against nss_Ldap 264 up to the
> bugzilla.
>
> This is a structural alteration at the source code level to ldap-
> nss.c which is generally just changing how it reads. However, it
> fixes some bugs in the kerberos pathways and also commons up code
> that had multiple copies in the code source.
>
> I would be very grateful if anybody could try it out and let me know
> what I have broken.
>
> My intention with this is to make the critical path through the code
> run the minimal code when a connection to the LDAP server exists,
> make recovery on failure more resilient, and provide for multiple
> SASL mechs without need to alter the ldap-nss code.
>
> Comments, improvements and fault reports much appreciated.
>
> I am hoping that Luke will push this out as the basis for the main
> development downstream, so that I can add the extra features on the
> kerberos side I am looking for.
>
> Howard.
>
>
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