nss-pam-ldapd is a Name Service Switch module and Pluggable Authentication Module using an LDAP server. It allows your LDAP server to provide user account, group, host name, alias, netgroup, and almost any other information that you would normally get from /etc flat files or NIS, and allows you to do authentication to an LDAP server.
| Tags | Systems Administration Networking LDAP NSS PAM |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Unix Shell C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release includes a number of code improvements and some work being done on pynslcd, the Python implementation of nslcd, including an initial offline cache implementation.


Release Notes: This release adds support for larger gecos values, improves logging, and handles numeric values from LDAP more carefully. It integrates FreeBSD improvements and fixes a few bugs. It brings the completion of pynslcd, the Python implementation of nslcd, closer. It should now be usable in test environments.


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release to address some annoying problems that were found. The fixes have been available in the development version for some time.


Release Notes: This release changes the default attribute used for group membership, adds extra checking before returning references to shadow information in the password map, improves connection timeout handling, supports large uid and gid values, handles too large values properly, and has numerous smaller fixes.


Release Notes: This release introduces checking the shadow properties for account and password expiration in the PAM code, has improvements to the pynslcd daemon, adds support for using the objectSid when using Active Directory, and has a number of smaller improvements.
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