Re: openldap + kmail

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On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:14 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 22:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > >> >> 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 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.
> > 
> > As far as I could see - I haven't experimented with it much -
> > phpLDAPadmin creates half-a-dozen top-level entries,
> > and if you try to create an entry under any of them
> > you have to choose one of a number of offered schemas.
> > That is what I meant by a "standard" schema.
> ----
> those are 'templates'
> ----
> > I do find the language of LDAP unattractive.
> > Assuming the idea is to create a tree-like structure
> > (like the Unix file-system)
> > the way of expressing it seems strange.
> > But I'm getting the book by Gerald Carter you mention,
> > and maybe that will change my mind.
> ----
> well, it might be unattractive but it's entirely versatile, which I
> suppose is part of it's unattractiveness.
> 
> I think what most people struggle with is not the language but rather
> the extremely rigid rule sets.
> 
> If LDAP wasn't thoroughly useful, it wouldn't be so widely used. It is
> part and parcel of Microsoft Active Directory as well as all sorts of
> UNIX/Linux setups. It can handle not only address books, but
> authentication, DNS, mail routing, various application preferences,
> binary blobs like pictures, etc.
> 
> It's overkill for a shared address book until you try to find another
> shared address book solution.

Not forgetting that it's the *Lightweight* Directory Access Protocol.
The full DAP (X.500) is worse.

poc

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