A cluestick-beating is in order for whoever is in charge of LDAP packages over at Red Hat. I’ve spent the past few days trying to figure out why my SSH server is seeing logins as “NOUSER” rather than the supplied user id. After much googling and hand-wringing, I found a bug in Red Hat’s Bugzilla system explaining the exact problem. It was derived from this email.
It’s not that the problem is easily fixed. It’s not that it was there to begin with. It’s that no one at Red Hat knows freakin’ LDAP. No one uses it there. Really.
Hey, Red Hat! If you’re going to ship a package as part of your product, please TEST the damn thing! The reason people deploy LDAP is to use it to log into machines!.
I know. It’s a novel idea: using a directory service to authenticate users. Maybe I should patent it.
Gah.
Patent an obvious idea with lots of prior art? Who do you think you are – Microsoft?