Re: openldap + kmail

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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

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