On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:34 -0400, Eric Sturdivant wrote: > I can't speak to the specifics of how to setup evolution, but in general > you just point your ldap client at ldap://directory.umd.edu with a search > base of `dc=umd,dc=edu' and go.
Thanks, Eric. For some reason it's just not working with Evolution. It gives no error message, but never returns any results either. > > E.g. > > z:~: which ldapsearch > /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch > > z:~: ldapsearch -H ldap://directory.umd.edu -b dc=umd,dc=edu uid=sturdiva cn > # LDAPv3 > # base <> with scope subtree > ~~# filter: uid=sturdiva > # requesting: cn > # > > # sturdiva, people, umd.edu > dn: uid=sturdiva,ou=people,dc=umd,dc=edu > cn: Eric Ransom Sturdivant I didn't know about ldapsearch before. Thanks, this is a very useful tool! In order to get it to work, I had to use the -x option to enable "simple authentication", at which point it asks me for a password and then ignores it entirely. > A couple of things to keep in mind: > > - If you want to search for students you will need to bind to the > directory first using your directory id and password (E.g. > 'lenski' not 'len...@umd.edu'). > - If you are going to bind to ldap, you probably want to use LDAP > over SSL (ldaps://directory.umd.edu) Do you have an example of how to do either of these from the command line with ldapsearch? If I try "-U lenski" to set my username for SASL authentication, I get a "Protocol error". If I try ldaps://directory.umd.edu, I get an error about being unable to contact the server. > There are a number of documents on the helpdesk website which detail how > to setup various mail clients to use the LDAP here: > > http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/systems/ldap/all > > Using one of these as a starting point will hopefully get you 90% of the > way there. Ah, I'm glad to see that these exist. I tried the thunderbird instructions, but without much success. Is there a possibility that the full LDAP server access is restricted to certain subnets or locations on campus? Dan
