From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 5: 9:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346BD37B406 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:09:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C85B43F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:09:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18o1JH-0001IB-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:09:19 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18o1J1-0001I4-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:09:04 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18o1Ix-0006en-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08:59 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18o1Iw-00057h-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08:58 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Darryl C Price , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3E5C6BD3.96DD9815@mirapoint.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5C6BD3.96DD9815@mirapoint.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302261508.57973.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18o1J1-0001I4-00*.5q33aBEwx.* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message