On 24 Mar 2010, at 09:51, Darren J Moffat wrote:

> On 23/03/2010 19:21, Nick wrote:
>>> 
>>> It has been broken like that since Solaris 10 (and
>>> perhaps the backported ldapclient used by Solaris 8).
>>> I believe there's some work going on to replace
>>> ldapclient; hopefully it won't preserve that
>>> particular bug :-)
>> 
>> Replacing with the pam_ldap and nss_ldap libraries from PADL that everyone 
>> else uses would be nice.  I wonder what the status is on that...
> 
> The status on that is, if you do it to your system you are unsupported and 
> unsupportable because it will get corrupted by patches/package updates.
> 
> As far as I'm aware that is not the future direction of the LDAP client in 
> Solaris.  I know a few things but I'm not at liberty to comment since it 
> isn't my project.

Is that happening in the Duckwater project, or is that something different?

<http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+duckwater/>

I assume the name refers to things being serene on the surface and paddling 
like crazy underwater :-)

Cheers,

Chris

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