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Title: Updatable LDAP ?
Post by: Rick Jones on August 26, 2003, 11:53:06 PM

After playing with LDAP for a bit, I can see that it is great for providing the email addresses of users configured on SME, but can it be used as a global address book, updatable by clients?

I'd like to create a workgroup environment, and that kind of functionality is essential.

Ideas?

Rick Jones

Title: Re: Updatable LDAP ?
Post by: Charlie Brady on August 27, 2003, 01:01:30 AM

Rick Jones wrote:

> After playing with LDAP for a bit, I can see that it is great
> for providing the email addresses of users configured on SME,
> but can it be used as a global address book, updatable by
> clients?

In theory it's possible, but there's likely a fair bit of work to do to set it up.
You probably need to modify the LDAP schema, and then you need to set up access restrictions, including configuring LDAP to do authentication. Not a trivial exercise. There's plenty of articles about openldap on the web - start at http://www.openldap.org/.

Charlie

Title: Re: Updatable LDAP ?
Post by: Rick Jones on August 27, 2003, 01:20:03 AM

Charlie - thanks for the pointers. Looks like I've got some reading to do :-/

Cheers, Rick

Title: Re: Updatable LDAP ?
Post by: Guck Puppy on August 27, 2003, 02:53:05 AM

Don't forget to read the discussions on this forum and the devinfo mailing list archives. This topic has come up before (at *least* once).

G