Full_Name: Guillaume Rousse Version: any OS: Linux URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (128.93.30.10)

In order to build out of tree extensions, such as ppolicy external password checker (http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-ppolicy-check-password), you need additional slapd headers, portable.h and slapd.h (and a bunch of additional dependant ones), which are currently not installed, and thus considered as private.

A request to ship those headers was refused by fedora package maintainer, precisely for this reason: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812860

The situation ought to be clarified, and some kind of solution found, as maintaining a custom slapd build just to be able to benefit from this extensability is largely overkill.