RedHat 7.2 + openldap security advisor => openldap 1.10alpha3 breaks down

[Joe Little]

Actually, RedHat renamed python-2 to python2 so that it co-exists with
python-ldap.

The issue with the libcrypt bit is that a newer version of openssl was used
for OpenLDAP. You can get around this by rebuilding later OpenLDAP packages
using the older openssl packages. I do not necessarily recommend this.

Separate from this, you can rebuild the python-ldap RPMS with python 1.5.x,
by simply changing the python version string through the spec file.

On 2/4/02 6:51 AM, "Juha Ylitalo" <juha.o.ylitalo at nokia.com> wrote:

> We've been using Joe Little's old python-ldap 1.10alpha3 RPM packages
> (and versions, which we have rebuilt from same source RPM). This
> solution has worked beatifully all the way upto openldap 2.0.11.
> Then we got that security advisory from RedHat
> (http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-014.html)
> 
> Since then we've been in following kind of situation:
> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul  5 2001, 03:02:19)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
> Linux 7.1
> 2 on linux-i386
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>> import ldap
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap.py", line 2,
> in ?
>   from _ldap import __version__
> ImportError: /lib/libcrypt.so`: shared object not open
>>>> 
> 
> At first we tried to get around by rebuilding python-ldap package, but
> that didn't seem to solve the problem. When we checked for new
> python-ldap versions, they all seemed to require python 2.x, which is
> understandable considering how long python 2.x versions have been out
> and as such they won't solve our immediate problem. As far as I've
> understood RedHat is planning to keep their default python version at
> 1.5.2 until they come up with RedHat Linux 8.x box and for that reason,
> we would like to avoid version upgrade as well.
> 
> So, if anyone has been able to get python-ldap to work in RedHat 7.2
> Linux box with python 1.5.2 and openldap 2.0.21, I'd like to hear about
> it. 
> 
> P.S. Yes, I know that python2 package exists, but if upgrade python-ldap
> to depend on it, we would also have to upgrade py-gtk, py-gnome, ...