any hope for bug 1663 or similar function?

[Alex Bligh]

--On 16 September 2012 14:54:26 +0200 Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> I think it's obvious from Damien's reply that there is strong desire
> to include functionality in OpenSSH which solves the problem. The
> general direction is also quite obvious from what he writes.
>
> Instead of talking nonsense about a timeline you should just send a
> perfect patch which does what Damien wants to do.

To be fair, there is a patch attached to that bug (attachment 1895
and comment 13), which I believe has not actually been reviewed yet,
which doesn't fiddle with LDAP, and fixes (I think) all of Damien's
concerns raised in the first comment.

Bug at:
  https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663
Patch at:
  https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=1896&action=diff

(note: I contributed to neither the patch nor the bug).

-- 
Alex Bligh