On Jun 2, 2007, at 6:31 AM, rra@stanford.edu wrote:
Full_Name: Russ Allbery Version: 2.4 (HEAD) OS: Debian URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245341 Submission from: (NULL) (171.66.157.14)
Now that 2.4 has native GnuTLS support, the patch that's been sitting around in Debian bug #245341 becomes potentially interesting (see the associated URL). This is a request to support LAN Manager password hashes when OpenLDAP is built with GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, thus requiring using libgcrypt to do the DES work instead of OpenSSL's DES library.
The patch in that bug almost certainly isn't okay in its current form,
Note that 3rd party contributions are generally not acceptable (for IPR reasons). That is, we generally require the author(s) of the patch to contribute the patch. If you think this patch is useful, you might suggest to its authors that they contribute it to the Project. In doing so, it's good to provide a link to our contributing guidelines, http://www.openldap.org/devel/ contributing.html.
but I wanted to get the ITS filed for this feature request so that there's a record in the database and just in case someone else feels inspired to bring the patch up to date and clean it up. (Unlikely, I know.) Otherwise, I will probably clean this patch up for further submission at some point near the 2.4 release (on which side of it, I'm not sure).
Without involvement from the authors of this patch, it's better to simply rewrite the feature from scratch.
-- Kurt