Sponsoring a canon_user plugin for LDAP lookup

[Alexey Melnikov]

Torsten Schlabach wrote:

> I don't think these patches might ever hurt anyone. I had asked Howard 
> Chu who's an experienced guy both here as well as with OpenLDAP (I 
> understand he's even the head of OpenLDAP) and even he did not have 
> any means of getting that patch in.
>
> If this was an Apache project, then I knew what I'd do to get the 
> patch in. But the Cyrus SASL lib project does not seem to have a bug 
> tracker 

This is actually not true. Check <http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu>

> and no list of people with write access to the CVS so one could ask 
> specifically.

Yes. This is missing. The following people have commit access to the CVS:

Ken Murchison <murch at andrew.cmu.edu>, Jeff Eaton <jeaton at andrew.cmu.edu> 
and myself.

> Getting that patches committed would be the only way to make sure this 
> functionality will ever show up in any offical packages on Debian, Red 
> Hat, etc. and will become mainstream functionality.

Considering that I have my own fork of LDAPDB, I am probably in the best 
position to take care of this.

> But first of all, I hope you can make it work. In case you can, please 
> let us know and in case a vote will be needed to get this patches 
> committed, maybe you could vote for it?
>
> Let me know if I can be of any further help.
>
> Regards,
> Torsten