diff --git a/sysutils/login_ldap/Makefile b/sysutils/login_ldap/Makefile
index e224193f84a..f5d9ba636d4 100644
--- a/sysutils/login_ldap/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/login_ldap/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 COMMENT=	provide ldap authentication type
 
 DISTNAME=	login_ldap-3.51
-REVISION=	8
+REVISION=	9
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 
 HOMEPAGE=	http://sourceforge.net/projects/login-ldap/
diff --git a/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/DESCR b/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/DESCR
index a6299b2353a..2a4ec026c59 100644
--- a/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/DESCR
+++ b/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/DESCR
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
 login_ldap provides an authentication mechanism through bsdauth to
 authenticate users against an LDAP server.
+
+New installations should not use this package, but instead use
+login_ldap(8) in the base OS. This package is provided for backwards
+compatibility because the configuration method is different (the version
+in the base OS uses login_ldap.conf instead of various parameters in
+/etc/login.conf).
diff --git a/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/MESSAGE b/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/MESSAGE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..89f40ea8b5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/login_ldap/pkg/MESSAGE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+This login_ldap package is provided for backwards compatibility but should
+be replaced by login_ldap(8) from the OpenBSD base OS.