On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:45:01PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Joachim Schipper wrote:
>> P.S. One more issue: you *do* realize that getting OpenBSD to
>> authenticate against LDAP is not entirely trivial, right? This might be
>> a serious problem if the LDAP system is to handle network-wide logins...
>
> OpenBSD can not authenticat against an LDAP server. Well, stricly speaking
> it can, but you have duplicate all accounts on OpenBSD. So realistically
> it can't.
Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry for being so oblique, but I presumed the
original poster was aware of this issue.
Mind you, duplicating all accounts on OpenBSD isn't actually impossible
in almost all sane circumstances - it's just that you lose most of the
benefits of LDAP.
Joachim
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