--On Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:06 AM +0000 Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

I note that nss/pam-ldap setting NOINIT (or otherwise mucking with libldap options) might break LDAP-enabled programs. But that's another matter.

Anyways, I think the only good fix (for this and many other larger problems) is a library redesign/rewrite.

Okay.

I note I don't find any mention of NOINIT in the nss_ldap or pam_ldap source, maybe it was removed at some point? I'm looking at the latest code from PADL.

Unless you mean patching nss_ldap/pam_ldap to set "LDAPNOINIT" in the environment? Which has other problems.

From the source of libldap:

init.c: if( getenv("LDAPNOINIT") != NULL ) {

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