Re: (ITS#5363) ldapsearch hangs when using ldap for host in nsswitch

[rra@stanford.edu]

hyc@symas.com writes:

> You might consider suggesting to PADL that they contribute pam/nss_ldap
> to the OpenLDAP Project, if you want us to take an active role in
> solving this. Until then, the discussion just doesn't belong here on the
> OpenLDAP ITS. I'll note that I've described the solution Symas uses in
> our commercial distribution of pam/nss-ldap on the pam/nss-ldap mailing
> lists in the past. Our package has none of these issues.
>
> Hint: since dynamic linker dependencies are causing the conflict, the
> solution is not to rely on the dynamic linker. In this particular case,
> using the dynamic linker introduces a security vulnerability anyway.

Understood.  Thank you very much for the help that you've provided.  We'll
try to find a solution that won't make you hate us.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>