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



quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
> --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.

For the specific case of nss/pam_ldap the obvious solution is to require 
that they never use default values anywhere. Generally that is already 
what happens anyway.

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