Re: (ITS#4750) libldap initialization of ~/.ldaprc and setuid

[quanah@stanford.edu]

--On Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:06 AM +0000 Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:


> I note that nss/pam-ldap setting NOINIT (or otherwise mucking
> with libldap options) might break LDAP-enabled programs.  But
> that's another matter.
>
> Anyways, I think the only good fix (for this and many other
> larger problems) is a library redesign/rewrite.

Okay.

I note I don't find any mention of NOINIT in the nss_ldap or pam_ldap 
source, maybe it was removed at some point?  I'm looking at the latest code 
from PADL.

Unless you mean patching nss_ldap/pam_ldap to set "LDAPNOINIT" in the 
environment?  Which has other problems.

>From the source of libldap:

init.c: if( getenv("LDAPNOINIT") != NULL ) {


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