Re: More flexible LDAP auth search filters?

On 9/8/17 13:24, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> My weapon of choice for LDAP deployments on POSIX-based systems is
> Arthur De Jong's nss-pam-ldapd (https://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd)
> which is far more flexible than pam_ldap and fixes a large number of
> bugs, including the tendency for pam_ldap to hang infinitely if it can't
> contact its LDAP server.
>
> Take a look at nss-pam-ldapd's man page for nslcd.conf and in particular
> pam_authz_search - this is exactly the type of filters I would end up
> deploying onto servers. This happens a lot in large organisations
> whereby getting group memberships updated in the main directory can take
> days/weeks whereas someone with root access to the server itself can
> hard-code an authentication list of users and/or groups in an LDAP
> filter in just a few minutes.

Thomas, would you consider using the placeholder syntax described at
<https://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/nslcd.conf.5> under
pam_authz_search?

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