Topic: List all LDAP entries?

[Rick Jones]

I'm trying to get my head round whether LDAP would be useful as a central addressbook, but at the moment I can't get anything out of it, regardless of what client I use.

I'm sure I could understand what I'm (probably) doing wrong if I could simply list all the entries, but clients all seem to insist on searching for something.

Any suggestions for dumping a list of the LDAP contents? I've got 5.5 and 5.6 servers, and having no luck with either, so it's probably me

TIA
Rick Jones

[Rick Jones]

OK - found it, the dreaded bug-id 99. Needed to re-initialise the LDAP database.

I didn't think I'd changed the domain name - which causes this problem - but maybe I did at some point during setup :-/

Related question though:

I can retrieve addresses from the LDAP server using Windows email clients (Outlook & OE mainly), but I can't add entries. This appears to be because the client just doesn't support LDAP updates.

Are there any Windows email clients that can update an LDAP server? I'd like to be able to use it as a shared global address book.

TIA
Rick Jones

[Mark Richardson]

Rick I am thinking of doing / trying the same.
There are a few php type things on source forge, rololdap and aldap

Looks promising...

[Rick Jones]

I found rolodap since I last posted, and installed it for a tryout. It's quite good, but comparing that to horde, it occured to me that you can actually do the same in horde's address book (turba). That would be better integrated than rolodap, which would be bringing yet another application into the picture!

The main thing with both of them is, if you want to use LDAP, you need to think about how you're going to set up the LDAP configuration, and do it on e-smith so it doesn't clash with the LDAP entries automatically maintained by the user management.

I've a pretty good idea how to go about it, but I've not had time to concentrate on it properly.

I think I'd still be limited to maintaining the address book via horde's web interface, but it would be accessible by any LDAP enabled client. I use Outlook (and sometimes OE) for most of my email, and they always treat LDAP as read-only. I'd consider switching Windows client if I knew of one that will write to LDAP!