On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:07, Gil Freund wrote: [snip] > > I did that. I use LDAP now for authentication and mail routing for all 4 > of my enterprise network users. > I also used PHPGroupware as a front end to enter contact information so > I can access it via Mozilla and such. I since dropped phpgroupware and > am Using TUTOS which uses an SQL back end. > LDAP has the following shortcomings (as far as I am concerned) > 1. ACL's are external to the directory, which makes it hard to have > private, public and shared contacts. Check these examples: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP-BindPW.html#GROUPADMIN
> 2. There is a shortage of reasonable front ends for data entry tools > which comply with standard schemes. rolodap and phpgroupware are the > only ones I have seen so far. There are general purpose interfaces which > give you access to the whole directory tree and allow you to preform a > lot of functions, and you can always write up LDIF files... But, no > simple phone book style data entry. > Check out the Directory Administrator: http://diradmin.open-it.org/index.php > Just a note, if you allow external access to your LDAP server, be sure > to use SSL. If you don't keep security related or sensitive information > and you don't can about other people reading your phone book, you can > use normal access, but make sure you use an anonymous connection. > > > > > --Amos > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
