PAM modules

[Xin LI]

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On 09/20/11 15:25, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Dag-Erling. You wrote 21 сентября 2011 г., 1:19:11:
> 
>> Yes, you have a point.  So you're saying: - client side only (for
>> nss_ldap, pam_ldap etc) - namespace hacks to avoid colliding with
>> the port right?  I would definitely support that.
> Maybe, BSD implementation, based on asn.1 to C compiler from Lev 
> Walkin (http://lionet.info/asn1c/blog/)? ;-)
> 
> Client-only part doesn't look very hard to implement, when all 
> boilerplate code (packing/unpacking/network processing, etc) is 
> auto-generated from RFCs.

That's true but is there any very compelling reason to do that (not
say no if someone really want to invest time on this and maintain it)
instead of just using an actively maintained codebase?  The OpenLDAP
license is pretty similar to a BSD license:

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