Dear misc@ readers, I'm planning to set up a OpenBSD 4.5 based server serving a local network with Windows XP based client computers. There's no mention of this in the OpenBSD faq, but I found a nice guide that seems to be pretty recent and up-to-date.
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/pdc/pdc4.html On this page, there's something that bothers me: "Please note that, though Samba account information will be stored in LDAP, smbd(8) will still obtain the user's UNIX account information via the standard C library calls, such as getpwnam() (see documentation); unfortunately, OpenBSD's standard C libraries don't support LDAP, thus forcing us to define Samba users also as local Unix accounts." "This means a little more work for the system administrator, who will need to define users twice, but won't affect the overall system security since Unix users won't need to be able to logon to the system." Now, I'm thinking that this problem maybe can be solved with this: http://openbsd.rutgers.edu/bsdauth/ + http://openports.se/sysutils/login_ldap ? Anyone else already done this in a better/smarter way? Thanks for your time! /bsdnuub
