Is ldapdb an auxprop plugin?

Jan Parcel jan.parcel at oracle.com
Thu Mar 24 14:45:35 EDT 2016


On 03/24/2016 11:14 AM, Dan White wrote:
> On 03/23/16 19:15 -0700, Jan Parcel via Cyrus-sasl wrote:
>> I need to provide a libsasl2 package that lets sysadmins decide how 
>> they want to configure
>> sasl at runtime.
>>
>> For mech plugins, it appears that I can get an application to ignore 
>> an installed plugin using
>> mech_list:
>>
>> But for auxprop plugins, I do not seem able to force ignoring the 
>> ldapdb plugin using
>> auxprop_plugin:   or canon_user_plugin:
>
> The simplest way to prevent ldapdb from being initialized is by removing
> the ldapdb shared library from your filesystem, or removing the 
> containing
> package, assuming it's not statically compiled into libsasl2.
>
> I've verified using pluginviewer (2.1.26) that auxprop_plugin,
> and canon_user_plugin do not prevent ldapdb ldapdb_canonuser_plug_init 
> from
> being called on ldapdb.
>
> I don't see any open bug reports about this, so please go ahead and open
> one.
>
OK, thanks.  I will.  For me, removing it can be a temporary measure at 
best.



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