Pam_ldap and nss_ldap

Question

hello !
i made and put two packages in incoming: pam_ldap and nss_ldap
LDAP authentication is now possible with Arch !
Comete
# Contributor: Comete <[email protected]>
pkgname=pam_ldap
pkgver=167
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The pam_ldap module provides the means for Solaris and Linux workstations to authenticate against LDAP directories, and to change
their passwords in the directory."
url="http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html"
depends=('pam')
makedepends=('pam')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=('/etc/pam_ldap.conf')
install=
source=(http://www.padl.com/download/$pkgname.tgz)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure
--libdir=/lib
--with-ldap-conf-file=/etc/pam_ldap.conf
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
md5sums=('05bc1ae27087583e20d948659c6b0d61')
# Contributor: Comete <[email protected]>
pkgname=nss_ldap
pkgver=212
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The nss_ldap module provides the means for Linux and Solaris workstations to resolve the entities defined in RFC 2307 from LDAP d
irectories."
url="http://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_ldap.html"
depends=('pam')
makedepends=('pam')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=('/etc/libnss-ldap.conf')
install=
source=(http://www.padl.com/download/$pkgname.tgz)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure
--with-ldap-conf-file=/etc/libnss-ldap.conf
--with-ldap=openldap
--libdir=/lib
--enable-schema-mapping
--enable-rfc2307bis
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
md5sums=('707869f5bde25145d29f84f7ff591d9f')

Answer 1

Also make sure to start nscd on bootup. Otherwise your LDAP server will get many queries. A simple ls -la in your homedirectory will generate a query for each file in it.
Also, if you don't run nscd, pacman will segfault on synching packagelists, because it's statical linked to NSS.