Comment 1 for bug 333437

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I guess I'm a little unclear on why the statement is misleading?

You are correct when you say "this is a optional package if I was NOT going to configure any Ubuntu client to authenticate using LDAP". For example you can run OpenLDAP on your server and not configure it to authenticate users to the directory, but configure Ubuntu desktop machines to authenticate using libnss-ldap.

Can you clarify this statement: "And laterly I found the libnss-ldap is a MUST have component regardless of your client type. If nss-ldap is not configured properly then you can't work out."

Does that mean that you had to install libnss-ldap on the server in order to authenticate clients? Because on my servers I do not have libnss-ldap and they are able to authenticate clients just fine.