On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:19 +0000, Paul Worrall wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 21:29, Nick Smith wrote: > > every how-to i have read about on openldap also wants you to > > authenticate against it. i just want to use it for a global address > > list, is this possible? if so, is their a how to on just this one part > > of openldap? or come someone just explain to me how to do it? i already > > authenticate against a mysql db and dont need openldap for that. is it > > possible to just use it for a global address list without having to also > > authenticate with it? is there a better solution for what i want to do? > > aka a different global address list, that is compatible with both linux > > and windows boxes. > > > > With the default config on Gentoo, you will need to authenticate to write > data, but not to read data. For example to add an entry: >
is there a way to change the default config to not authenticate? or have it look somewhere else, perhaps my mysql db for the authentication? > ldapadd -x -H "ldap://localhost"; -D "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -W > Enter LDAP Password: <enter the value of rootpw from /etc/openldap/slapd.conf> > dn: cn=Test User,dc=example,dc=com > objectclass: person > sn: User > cn: Test User > mail: Test [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ^D > adding new entry "cn=Test User,dc=example,dc=com" > ^D > im very new to openldap so im not quite sure how to set it up, i can just emerge it and then start adding people? and also, is there a file i can edit and put all of them in there or do i have to run that command every time i want to add someone? also what about a gui frontend for adding people? is there one? perhaps that i can access remotely as well? sorry for all the questions. > To show the contents of the directory: > ldapsearch -H "ldap://localhost"; -b "dc=example,dc=com" > -- [email protected] mailing list
