On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:10 -0700, Kimball Larsen wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something massive out there (LDAP, perhaps?) but > here goes: > > Our organization currently uses Exchange Server for the sole purpose > of sharing contacts in Outlook/Entourage on the desktop. > > Is there a free/os linux tool that can do the same thing Exchange > Server is doing for us now? Ie, just supply a way to let Outlook/ > Entourage see a shared list of contacts that everyone can update?
LDAP certainly can give you a shared list of contacts that everyone can see and search from their e-mail clients (and LDAP-backed address book). In fact right now our department uses our department-wide LDAP server for this purpose, really a fringe benefit of using LDAP for authentication and authorization purposes (all users are in LDAP). The last part of your question is the kicker, though. I simply don't know about allowing end users to do the updates back into LDAP. In theory (and this depends on the mechanisms that the clients use to do updates), you could have each user set up to authenticate to the LDAP server as them selves (this is a standard option in outlook, thunderbird, etc. usually something about binddn), and then set up rules in the ACLs in LDAP to allow users to update certain fields in their own records. LDAP is a broad, nebulous thing. So in large part it is up to you to consider what kind of structure you want your data to have. That is the hard part. Michael > > Thanks! > > -- Kimball > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
