RE: PAM NSS LDAP

["Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)" <KeHall@exchange.ml.com>]

You need the openldap or openldap2 "lib" and "devel" packages to build nss_ldap.  You don't actually need the server.

Packaging varies somewhat by distro, but there should be equivalents.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luiz@pucrs.br [mailto:luiz@pucrs.br]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:33 AM
> To: Broussard Philippe
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: PAM NSS LDAP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Phillipe
> 
> > If i use : configure without option or just --prefix,
> > i have this error line :
> >                        configure: error: could not locate <ldap.h>
> > if I use --with-ldap-lib=openldap
> > it's the same thing, I must indicate to configure where is installed
> > ldap but if i have server ldap on another machine, I can't 
> indicate the
> path
> > to this machine for compiling PAM or NSS
> 
> Well, you NEEDS the ldap libraries both in the server and the 
> client! In
> general, the libraries are in /usr/include or 
> /usr/local/include dirs. I
> suggest first to search for the ldap.h library in your system 
> ( "find /
> -name ldap.h" ). What´s your client system? Linux? Solaris?
> 
> > It's very stupid to install openldap on each machine just 
> for compiling
> > PAM or NSS
> 
> Well, the libraries are necessary. But I ever find it in the 
> systems (Linux
> and Solaris). Then, I think that isn´t necessary to install 
> OpenLdap in the
> clients.
> 
> Best regards
> 
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