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| author | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2010-08-17 16:40:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2010-08-17 16:40:05 +0000 |
| commit | a11e6c251e11c8c5f216135eb73c358f98a45070 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e87486de604e40704f67352c1a3fdaede69517d | |
| parent | f93eb21a84c504f4433cb919aa5690af6671dd27 (diff) | |
updated debconf template thanks to Justin B Rye
git-svn-id: http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd/nss-pam-ldapd@1176 ef36b2f9-881f-0410-afb5-c4e39611909c
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/libpam-ldapd.templates | 17 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/debian/libpam-ldapd.templates b/debian/libpam-ldapd.templates index 1abfac5..ae04810 100644 --- a/debian/libpam-ldapd.templates +++ b/debian/libpam-ldapd.templates @@ -2,14 +2,11 @@ Template: libpam-ldapd/enable_shadow Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Enable shadow lookups through NSS? - For the proper operation of the PAM stack the NSS module should return - shadow information for LDAP users, otherwise these users will not be able - to log in. Note that the shadow entries themselves may be empty (i.e. it - is not needed to expose password hashes). + To allow LDAP users to log in, the NSS module needs to be enabled to + perform shadow password lookups. The shadow entries themselves may be + empty - that is, there is no need for password hashes to be exposed. See + http://bugs.debian.org/583492 for background. . - More background information on this requirement can be found here: - http://bugs.debian.org/583492 - . - You can edit /etc/nsswitch.conf by hand or choose to add the entry - automatically now. Be sure to review the changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf if - you choose to add the entry now. + Please choose whether /etc/nsswitch should have the required entry added + automatically (in which case it should be reviewed afterwards) or whether + it should be left for an administrator to edit manually. |