Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08:57 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Darryl C Price <darryl@mirapoint.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <200302261508.57973.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <3E5C6BD3.96DD9815@mirapoint.com> References: <3E5C6BD3.96DD9815@mirapoint.com>
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:25, someone, possibly Darryl C Price, typed:
> I see a lot of message traffic on the net from people, like me, who are
> having problems with PAM authentication via LDAP. Why don't you guys
> focus on delivering a pam_ldap module that works without a lot of
> jumping through hoops?
>
> =Darryl
Darryl, I think -dev or one of the more sepcific lists would be a better
place to ask your question, -questions is mostly support.
The standard answer though is that people can't focus on one thing all the
time, I'm very certain somebody is already working on a better pam_ldap
module, but since FreeBSD is developed by volunteers in what little free
time they have, these things will take time, unfortunately.
I think Bill Paul answered this question rather well in -current and -net
earlier, Bill writes:
> Not unless it's something I can fix using easily available resources.
> I can't easily drop everything and slap together a test setup with
> exactly the right software and hardware I need to debug everyone's
> particular problem. ("This bug only occurs in -CURRENT as of 30
> seconds ago and on an UltraSPARC 10 with 16 if_dc interfaces and
> I need you to fix it _NOW_ pleasepleasepleaseI'llevengiveyouahandjob.")
While that is a slightly different context, the same principle applies,
things take time. :-)
Perhaps you should submit this as a PR sothat it can be asigned to a group
of developers.
Will
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