[nycbug-talk] OT: OpenLDAP 23 client with 24 server?

[Matt Juszczak]

Hi All,

A bit off topic, but I'm hoping someone knows the answer on the list.

Most of our boxes are FreeBSD.  FreeBSD has ports for openldap22, 
openldap23, and openldap24.  Not using slurpd much anymore in my setups, I 
decided to run with openldap24 in our recent setup.  Setup openldap24 
server, and all the FreeBSD clients have openldap24 clients.  Everything 
is working well.

Recently, we had to introduce a few RHEL boxes into our setup.  We're 
pointing to the redhat repositories, but they seem to only have 
openldap23-* client packages.  I know I could potentially make my own 
packages, or perhaps get RPM's from the Internet, but I was wondering if 
by some chance openldap23 clients (and pam_ldap/nss_ldap libraries) are 
compatible with openldap24 servers?  I would assume the other way around 
(openldap24 clients with openldap23 servers) would work fine.

I will admit I cross-posted this entry to the ldap mailing list as well to 
get an expedited answer, as I'm running a bit tight on time, but I don't 
usually do this, so my apologies if someone received this twice.

Thanks!

-Matt