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authorArthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>2009-06-01 17:14:57 +0000
committerArthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>2009-06-01 17:14:57 +0000
commitea7a23061f39663c347f0e95630a503326679c50 (patch)
tree57709a197f58fed52f31170fe11528afaabfe84f /README
parent020849cc192cadd9d1c569d72a712a3837a72f3a (diff)
clean up documentation
git-svn-id: http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd/nss-ldapd@914 ef36b2f9-881f-0410-afb5-c4e39611909c
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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Currently the following name databases are supported:
Note that for when using IPv6 hosts entries, the addresses in the LDAP
directory must be in their preferred form. The same is true for mac addresses
-for the ethers database. Otherwise the address->entry lookups will not work.
+for the ethers database. Otherwise the address to entry lookups will not work.
For more details on the preferred form see
http://ldap.akbkhome.com/index.php/attribute/ipHostNumber.html
and
@@ -131,9 +131,8 @@ unsupported features
Since nss-ldapd was forked from nss_ldap most of the features that came with
nss_ldap are available. However, not all features have extensively tested yet
and may cause problems.
-- attribute value default and overrides have been removed (but may reappear
+- attribute value defaults and overrides have been removed (but may reappear
some day if requested)
-- SSL/TLS support is untested but will be tested when the core code stabilizes
- the configuration file formats are not fully compatible
- nested groups are currently unsupported
- rootbinddn/rootbindpw support is removed and is not likely to return
@@ -314,12 +313,14 @@ dc=com) the lookup is skipped and the value from the DN is used. A cache is
maintained that holds on to DN to uid translations for 15 minutes
(see DN2UID_CACHE_TIMEOUT in nslcd/passwd.c).
-In all cases, duplicate users are returned only once.
+In all cases, users that are specified as member multiple times are returned
+only once.
Currently, having nested groups by uniqueMember values pointing to other
groups, as well as the memberOf attribute in posixAccount entries are
unsupported.
+
MISC NOTES
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