This package provides a Name Service Switch module that allows your
LDAP server to provide user account, group, host name, alias, netgroup,
and basically any other information that you would normally get from
/etc flat files or NIS. Nss-ldapd is a fork of the nss_ldap package by
PADL Software Pty Ltd.. implementing some structural design changes
that were needed to fix some issues of the original design.