nss_ldap - working or not, and how to?

[jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org]

Nope - that doesn't do the trick. I believe I saw something about having 
to recompile BIND, but there weren't any details.

Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote on 09/21/2004 01:27:02 PM:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:05:44 -0500, jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org
> <jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org> wrote:
> > I'm in desperate need of nss_ldap - it's one of the reasons I'm moving
> > from NetBSD to FreeBSD - and wondering what the current state of it 
is,
> > with 5.3BetaX? Also, is there anyone/where that can tell me what steps 
are
> > needed to hook it into the system? I know it means recompiling some
> > things, but I don't know exactly what and can't seem to find any good
> > source.
> > 
> > Any help at all would be appreciated.
> 
> I believe all you need to do is install the nss_ldap port, set up the
> ldap server, and add ldap to /etc/nsswitch.conf on 5.x+.