FreeRADIUS Thread Behaviour

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Mon Oct 16 19:18:02 CEST 2017


Michael Ströder wrote:
> Alan DeKok wrote:
>> If you go through the OpenLDAP client code, you'll see global
>> variables, and all kinds of magic to determine if the LDAP library is
>> initialized.  That's bad.
>
> Yes. That's why python-ldap serializes all calls to ldap_initialize()
> with a module-wide function lock. After that connection-specific locks
> are used.

And btw: Everybody should really avoid pam_ldap/nss_ldap and use a
service like nslcd (aka nss-pam-ldapd) or sssd instead.

Ciao, Michael.

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