nss_ldap Raspberry Pi Issues

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This is more a note for myself than anything else. Whilst setting up OpenLDAP and integration with PAM and nsswitch.conf, I ran into a strange issue where getent passwd wouldn’t return any of the LDAP results, even using the same configuration that worked on another host. I tracked it down to the symlink /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2 not existing and needing to point at nss_ldap.so. This was a bit of a strange situation as the symlink on my x86-64 based system links elsewhere so I am assuming it is a problem that only exists on arm architectures.

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