On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:15 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 23:39 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> To be honest though, I am quite sure that openldap.org has a simple > >>> address book setup in their - yep... > >>> > >>> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1005.html > >> I had actually seen that, but didn't find it all that lucid. > >> > >> I should have said that I'm hoping to maintain my address book > >> with phpLDAPadmin, which as far as I can see more or less forces one > >> to choose a standard schema. > >> > >> I guess the solution in my case is to get edit the LDIF > >> created by kaddressbook, and then keep the address book on my LDAP server. > >> > >>> but more importantly...buy the damn book and spend the $20...it will > >>> learn ya good. > >> I've added it to my amazon wish list. > >> > >> Thanks for all the help. > > ---- > > I honestly don't know what a standard schema is...I know what schema's I > > tend to set up but in reality, it really doesn't matter as long as the > > schema you set up makes sense to you. > > > > phpldapadmin is agnostic to setup...like any other ldap client, you > > merely tell it what the basedn is and you take it from there. > > > > The problem is that people sit back and wait for some gui tool to set > > things up for them but the gui tools don't make sense until you > > understand ldap. > > > > The reason that I love the Gerald Carter book (LDAP System > > Administration) is that he gives it to you in really basic > > spoonfuls...three hours and you get it. Bing! Be forewarned though...the > > book is old and uses ldbm database but that's essentially obsolete and > > now the suggested way is to use bdb but ldbm is good enough to start. > > It's not that old (copyright 2003) and he mentions bdb and in fact > states that bdb is preferred over ldbm (chapter 3, middle of page 34). ---- 2003 is light years old in terms of OpenLDAP development. but I digress...I will pull out my book over the weekend and check about ldbm/bdb. It's a great book though. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
