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I was happily using libpam-ldap and libnss-mysql (authenticating clients directly against LDAP, with NSS data such as UID/GID/home dir kept in a mysql database).

Now I tried to install Jessie on clients, but libnss-mysql is gone from Debian Jessie. What happened to it? The project is still hosted on sourceforge -- which seems to be evil now -- and there's no activity. It's also not in backports.

Is there a functional replacement?

zecg
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To answer your first question the reasons given for removing it from debian were

  • Ophaned since 1.5 years
  • Dead upstream (former maintainer is also the Savannah project admin)
  • Virtually unused

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617591

Seems the last reelase it was in was squeeze, it wasn't in wheezy or jessie.

The second part of your question is harder. Some googling found libnss-mysql-bg but that isn't in jessie or stretch either and while it is in sid the sid version has a rather nasty looking rc bug.

Peter Green
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