[wplug] LDAP
Poyner, Brandon
bpoyner at ccac.edu
Tue Jul 13 14:40:35 EDT 2004
O'Reilly has a book on LDAP that has been available for a little over a
year. It has examples on how to set up a directory and getting
applications such as Outlook Express to use it. You're best off heading
over to Borders to skim it over a coffee before buying it, it may not be
for everyone.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/index.html
Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Jerome [mailto:jjerome2 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:14 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] LDAP
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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