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libuser package

libuser compiled without ldap support

Bug #1154812 reported by lebedov on 2013-03-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libuser (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #660847
	libuser (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The libuser package doesn't appear to have been built with ldap support; it should contain a libuser_ldap.so library:

$ dpkg -L libuser1
/.
/etc
/etc/libuser.conf
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libuser1
/usr/share/doc/libuser1/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libuser1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libuser
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_files.so
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_shadow.so
/usr/lib/libuser.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib/libuser.so.1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libuser 1:0.56.9.dfsg.1-1.2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 13 17:41:53 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-26 (77 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libuser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-26 (77 days ago)

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote on 2013-03-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (922 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote on 2013-05-20:

Still is an issue on raring.

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added: raring

Andreas Moog (ampelbein) on 2013-08-08

Changed in libuser (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2013-08-08

Changed in libuser (Debian):
status:	Unknown → New

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote on 2013-11-13:

Still is an issue on saucy.

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added: saucy

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote on 2014-04-29:

Still is an issue on trusty.

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added: trusty

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Zombie Ryushu (zombie-ryushu) wrote on 2016-12-22:

This is still a serious issue for users of Samba 4!

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DaveQB (david-dward) wrote on 2021-07-23:

Same problem on Ubuntu 20.04

Is the Solution to compile libuser from source?

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote on 2021-07-23:

As it doesn't seem that there is interest in including LDAP support by default from the perspective of the the package maintainer given how long this bug has been open, I ended up compiling from source.