So far, it has been my experience that learning (Open)LDAP is really no more difficult then learning Microsoft's Active Directory system. The only major difference that I see is that (Open)LDAP appears to be easier to recover, if there happens to be corruptions and such.Actually, I'm going to side with him. Figureing out the setup has taken me just under 6 months which is way too long. IMHO, the problem isn't that the system is complex, exactly. Rather that it can seem so complex that one constantly winds up second guessing. It has too many components to keep track of and integrate (ACL's, smb.conf slapd.conf ldap.conf ldap.secret, search syntax etc. etc..). Despite thier individual complexity I've felt that they are collectively complex. If one isn't good at decomposeing problems into smaller domains, then one might be in trouble. Also there is the problem of thinking in an extra dimension for an object orientated database system when most of us are trained to think in relational terms. Couple this with the lack of an easy to use and understand query language/syntax (i.e. that we are spoiled by SQL)...
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