openldap + kmail

[Rick Stevens]

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).

Thpppt!  :-)
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