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Ubuntu better.
It is certainly confusing that PAM uses /etc/ldap.conf whereas openldap
uses /etc/ldap/ldap.conf. But it isn't clear to me that these two files
are actually of the same format, or that it is guaranteed that one is a
superset of the other.
The pam_ldap(5) manpage says:
pam_ldap stores its configuration in the ldap.conf file. (It should
be noted that some LDAP client libraries, such as OpenLDAP, also
use a configuration file of the same name. pam_ldap supports many
of the same configuration file options as OpenLDAP, but it adds
several that are specific to the functionality it provides. It is
not guaranteed that pam_ldap will continue to match the configura‐
tion file semantics of OpenLDAP. You may wish to use different
files.)
I think that doing something such as your symlink would have unintended
consequences, so I'm not sure that a fix for the general case is
trivial. And any change would best be coordinated with Debian.
** Package changed: openldap (Ubuntu) => libpam-ldap (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: libpam-ldap (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: libpam-ldap (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- /etc/ldap/ldap.conf missing
+ libpam-ldap should share openldap's configuration file
** Summary changed:
- libpam-ldap should share openldap's configuration file
+ libpam-ldap should share openldap's configuration mechanism
** Also affects: openldap (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: openldap (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: openldap (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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