Anne Wilson wrote: > LDAP does feel a bit daunting. I feel that it should be possible to learn > and activate one bit of its potential at a time, but after reading a > couple of > web pages about it I gave up. Does the book you mention lead you in > reasonably slowly? I've rather a lot on my plate for the forseeable > future, so don't want to have to swallow huge amounts of medicine at once My view of LDAP is slightly jaundiced. I've come to the conclusion that it is a very bad way of creating a system-wide address book, but unfortunately the only way that actually works. (As Winston Churchill said of democracy, it is a terrible system but better than all the others that have been tried from time to time.) I have the Gerald Carter book (actually I borrowed it) and I would give it 7/10, or alpha minus. I was amazed when looking around how bad all the online introductions on OpenLDAP that I found were. (If I have to read another history of X509 I may jump out of the window.) Certainly Carter's book is far better than any of these. It still seems to me that there ought to be a simple 10-page exposition on OpenLDAP, but if there is I haven't found it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
