Hello fellow Factory users. There are some interesting progress going on with OpenLDAP package. Feature wise, OpenLDAP will soon be able to check password strength and enforce password strength policies that will comply with your IT needs, the feature comes in new package "ppolicy-check-module" and please read ppolicy-check-password.5 (https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/network:ldap/openldap2/ppolicy-...) if you are interested to find out more. Apart from the new feature, a decision had to be made to determine the appropriate package for file /etc/openldap/ldap.conf - a system-wide configuration file for all client applications that link against LDAP library. Here are the facts: - ldap.conf is a system-wide configuration file, shared by all client applications that link against LDAP library. - LDAP library will automatically load parameters from ldap.conf, but it will not complain if the file is missing or empty. - ldap.conf used to belong to openldap2-client package, which contains command line utilities for interacting with an LDAP server. However, since ldap.conf is made for more than the command line utilities, the file was moved into libldap to live with the library .so files. But there's an important decision to be made, and I would love to hear your opinion: should ldap.conf belong in libldap package at all? The argument against it says that in the future, if OpenLDAP upstream releases a new version and breaks backward-compatibility, AND if both new release and current release must be supported by openSUSE, the ldap.conf will become a file conflict between libldap-New-And-Incompatible and libldap-2.4 (current). At the same time, the arguments supporting placement of ldap.conf inside libldap cites the fact that libldap uses ldap.conf by contract and hence they should belong together. Moreover, OpenLDAP-New-And-Incompatible is nowhere to be seen at this momemt. So what do you think? Kind regards, Howard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org