This One Time, at Band Camp, ???????????? ??????????????? Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:05:34PM +0530: > ,--[ On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16AM +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > | Hello,
> | I have never worked with LDAP but I would like to install an LDAP > | server on my server and share my address book on it between all the > | programs I used daily, I searched a lot on google but I couldn't find > | anything except the one on ubuntu[1] which I'm not sure it'll work... > LDAP is a real cool protocol offering a hierarchial directory like > facility. You can store anything in that directory, from user accounts, > to your GPG keys to address book to email aliases, anything for which > you're able to write a schema. You'll enjoy working with it :) > | Could someone please help me building this address book, I really need > | it but I have no idea how to do it on my own... > Install OpenLDAP server (openldap23-{server,client} or > openldap24-{server,client}) > from FreeBSD ports. And follow administrator's guide[1] to setup your > LDAP server. The "Building an OpenLDAP address book" article [2] at > ONLamp will guide you with setting up address book with OpenLDAP. > And you'll also like to try out phpldapadmin for managing LDAP directory > over web :) . > References: > [1] - http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/ > [2] - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html Thank you for your reply, I have already installed openldap23-server and client, I still have to configure it and create the address book. could you please take a look at the this guide[1] before I start walking throught it, it seems kinda complete for an Addressbook installation. Also Do you by any chance use mutt with LDAP, if yes how did you do that? [1]: http://www.sudleyplace.com/LDAP/index.en.html > HTH > -- > Ashish Shukla ???????????? ??????????????? > http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ > ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- > freed.in | freedom in technology and software | 22-24 February 2008 | Delhi > ··-· ·-· · · -·· ·-·-·- ·· -· ··--- ----- ----- ---·· Content-Description: Digital signature > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > iD8DBQFHsbzGHy+EEHYuXnQRAgCgAKCnbNnRVNWnIeqJq5g11EOeQAdtgwCePGhw > ZzoKUldu6+Wt6J0TydJBe6c= > =KBOO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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