Re: ldap authentication troubles

2007-02-21 Thread David Golden
on OpenBSD, for things like samba servers or user logins to the machine, the account must be created locally as well as in the LDAP database. at least this is the current state of affairs. trivia: This contrasts to e.g. the linux/solaris situation where a nss (Name Service Switch) module

Re: Disable IPv6 on OpenBSD 4.0 - forking discussion to icmp echo request blockage

2006-12-21 Thread David Golden
On Monday 18 December 2006 19:29, Jon Radel wrote: I suppose it all comes down to such unresolvable matters such as is making it harder for outsiders to map your network merely security through obscurity, which is naturally below the dignity of any right thinking network engineer, or does it

Re: Dell 1650 serial console

2006-08-30 Thread David Golden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:39, Marian Hettwer wrote: Redirection After Boot Any more ideas? Well, I guess, set redirection after boot to no, but tell obsd pxeboot to default to com0 with a /etc/boot.conf on the tftp server (see pxeboot man page...)

Re: Dell 1650 serial console

2006-08-30 Thread David Golden
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:09, Marian Hettwer wrote: Linux can cope with this situation and OpenBSD can't. Hmph. Could well just be because linux (or at least syslinux) blindly assumes something that openbsd (probably correctly) checks, though?

SCSI tape changer quirkiness: Dell PV132T and SMS_DBD bit

2006-06-29 Thread David Golden
The Dell PV132T tape library's changer apparently used to expect the SMS_DBD bit to be _set_ in Mode Sense requests, or it just sulks, see link [1] and dmesg excerpt [2] below. This was incorrect behaviour on its part, AFAIK. So, I began to imagine some sort of a SDEV_MSDBDON SCSI quirk, but