On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Daniel Lenski wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to configure Evolution or another mail client to use the
University's LDAP server to find contacts' email address and other info?
It's kind of driving me nuts... there's obviously an LDAP server running
somewhere, and you can access a [crummy] web interface at
www.ldap.umd.edu, and the new Exchange mail servers can look up contacts
on it...
But for the life of me, I can't figure out the settings necessary to get
Evolution to use the LDAP server. I've tried ldap.umd.edu with my email
address as the login, but no luck. The OIT page
(http://www.oit.umd.edu/middleware/directory/index.html) is remarkably
lacking in information on the LDAP server, but I did find this
presentation
(http://www.oit.umd.edu/middleware/directory/CSG-henry_files/v3_document.htm)
which gives a tiny bit more information.
So, if anyone's figured out how to connect to the LDAP server, I'd love
to hear it!
Dan
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.
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
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)
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.
--
Eric Sturdivant
University of Maryland
Office of Information Technology
Distributed Computing Services
