* Pineau Benjamin <ben.pineau@gmail.com> [2005-02-18 00:15]:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:54:58 +0100 (MET), Eric Alata <ealata@laas.fr> wrote:
> > I'd like, if possible, to help in the development of OpenBSD.
> > Someone adviced me to study Ldap targeting its integration into
> > the system of authentification. I think it is an interesting point.
> > But, maybe someone is already working on this ?
> > So, could you tell me, please, what can I do to help ?
> There's already a login_ldap port.
> What do you want to do, more specificaly ? a tighter integration (with
> eg. dynamic nsswitch) ? a BSD licenced ldap client lib ?

well, we need to be able to get user information from LDAP servers
using the standard posixAccount objectclass.

With login_ldap, we can authenticate against ldap. great.
but the user still has to exist locally.

so yes, we need some kind of nsswitch.

and a BSD licensed set of ldap client libraries would be good too to
allow for a a future OpenBSD release to ship with support for user
information in LDAP out of the box.

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