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December 2nd, 2015

OpenBSD LDAP authentication via XDM

So this has been slightly enigmatic… trying to get logins working via xdm (it seemed to not be querying LDAP).

I re-checked my config, using the best reference:

I tried checking the logs.

But, the issue was apparently NOT LDAP.

This helpful post clued me in:

For if we start xdm with full debugging verbosity:

# xdm -debug 255 -nodaemon
...

We can clearly see it is kicking us out because the user's default shell (bash) is NOT listed in /etc/shells. Adding it fixed the problem and everything lit up as it should.

xdm config

Now that I've gotten the xdm login situation resolved, it is time to apply configuration tweaks.

December 1st, 2015

The future: vertical OpenBSD desktops

I thought to tinker with rotating the display orientations to the left, so monitors could be turned on their sides (freeing up a significant amount of desk space).

The basic trick is with xrandr, which I accomplished in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:

xrandr --output VGA-0 --off --output DisplayPort-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 1280x0 --rotate left --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x0 --rotate left

The lingering problem is that XDM logins do not appear to be workingeee

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