[wplug] LDAP

[Jason Jerome]

Does anyone have any information on LDAP for a novice?  I am interning
at a small company that just uses a POP server as a mail client.  This
is excellent for me, since I can use Thunderbird instead of Outlook for
my email.

However, there is no way to share our contact lists amongst each other.
 Right now, someone emails a file with all the updated email addresses
in it, and everyone just uses their version of Outlook to import them.

I've been looking for a way to provide an easy way for us to keep a
common shared address book for the company.  I've come across LDAP
before, but I never really understood what it was doing.  

>From as far as I can tell, it provides a server where applications can
get information about users.  I thought for a while that it was using
some hybrid directory structure on a server, but I've read some stuff
that leads me to believe that isn't the case. 
Are there any good guides that can explain LDAP from a novice point of
view?  Maybe even a simple LDAP server I could set up as a proof of
concept?  I went to the OpenLDAP website, but I'm not even sure if that
is the best one out there.  I remembered reading a few emails on this
list about LDAP.

We have a Linux server right now for our BugZilla installation, but I'd
probably be setting it up at home on my Fedora box.  Anyone have any
suggestions where I could start?  Is this overkill for the results I'm
looking for?

Thanks in advance...



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