unifying a contact list across platforms and networks

[Moniz Family]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

>On Friday 19 March 2004 15:13, gabriel wrote:
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>>i'm about to start working on a volunteer project that involves a number of
>>things including a few web-based database apps and a centralised
>>contact-management system.
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>LDAP is supposed to be the all-singing, all-dancing solution to problems such 
>as this.  Connectivity to LDAP is built into many email programs and there 
>are LDAP interfaces from most programming languages (PHP included).  If the 
>contact list isn't specifically tied to email then there are decent free LDAP 
>browsers (gq for Linux is my favorite).
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>Most of the "groupware" solutions that I've seen end sound promising but then 
>when your read about them, or install them, you find out that they're 
>basically just a bunch of php scripts talking to a database and that there is 
>little, or no, real integration with external apps (mozilla, kaddressbook, 
>kalendar, evolution, whatever).
>
>OTOH, I can't preach in favour of LDAP ;-)  I've made a few half-hearted (and 
>failed) attempts at getting it working for authentication and I just don't 
>grok it.  LDAP would be a great topic for a NewTLUG meeting if anyone's up 
>for it :-)
>
I'd be very interested in an LDAP presentation (at NewTLUG of course).

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