unifying a contact list across platforms and networks
Wil McGilvery
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Mon Mar 22 01:30:52 UTC 2004
Here is a link to 4 articles on building an LDAP server using Open LDAP. The links are part way down the page.
http://networking.earthweb.com/article.php/1570651
Maybe this will help you get started?
Regards,
Wil McGilvery
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-----Original Message-----
From: Moniz Family [mailto:john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:49 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: unifying a contact list across platforms and networks
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).
>
>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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