* Alexandre PAUZIES (alexandre.pauzies@linagora.com) wrote:
> Le dimanche 28 Mars 2004 23:09, asker survey a écrit :
> > Hello;
> > 	Am a FreeBSD an OpenBSD user. I cannot use OpenLDAP
> > client on FreeBSD 4.X to authenticate my shell users
> > from a Linux server. I notticed NetBSD uses nsswitch
> > like Linux. I want to know if I can use OpenLDAP
> > client to athunticate shell users. If the answer is
> > "Yes" is there any particulare thing that I must know.
> >
> > Thanks for your attention.
> > I am not a list member.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know that you could use pam with NetBSD (like with Linux) to authentify you 
> shell users but NetBSD doesn't support nsswitch modules, so there is no 
> nss_ldap and you can't really use this.
> 
> You should look at a nis to ldap gateway (http://ypanything.sourceforge.net).
> 
> Alex. 

This seems like an awful big hastle.  The reason I don't really use
netbsd is because it lacks nss support for ldap.  I migrated away from
NIS to LDAP because.  umm well we won't go there, but I use LDAP for many
things nss, and I see this as a major drawback in selecting netbsd for my
systems.

dan