OpenLDAP woes

[Per Qvindesland]

Been there done that and I never got the t shirt :) it's a horrid path to go 
down, yes it's simple when you know how to do it as some one told me when I 
was busy with the setup, but my anserw was that anything is simple when you 
know how to do it, but the docs around setting up a simple address book is 
horrid and it seriously needs a lot of work, I am looking at putting together 
a simple how to and post up on my server, but it would be better if I could 
post it on a wiki that people actually use.

Kind regards
Per Qvindesland

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 04:05:04 pm Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I asked a couple of weeks ago for advice on a LAN-wide address-book,
> and several people suggested I look at LDAP.
>
> I did this, and it does indeed look like the best solution,
> as kmail and other mail clients seem to accept addresses from LDAP servers.
>
> Unfortunately, the openLDAP documentation seems horrendously bad.
> I found a few useful web-sites, particularly
> "Build an LDAP-based address book",
> at <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-linuxldap-i.html>,
> "Building an Address Book with OpenLDAP"
> at <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html>,
> and also <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch5>.
>
> But I'm left with a few small queries,
> and am wondering if many Fedora users have gone down this path?
> Also, I wonder if there is a mailing list or newsgroup
> devoted to this topic, for newbies?
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
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