Anne Wilson wrote:
LDAP does feel a bit daunting. I feel that it should be possible to
learn
and activate one bit of its potential at a time, but after reading a
couple of
web pages about it I gave up. Does the book you mention lead you in
reasonably slowly? I've rather a lot on my plate for the forseeable
future, so don't want to have to swallow huge amounts of medicine at once
My view of LDAP is slightly jaundiced.
I've come to the conclusion that it is a very bad way
of creating a system-wide address book,
but unfortunately the only way that actually works.
(As Winston Churchill said of democracy,
it is a terrible system but better than all the others
that have been tried from time to time.)
I have the Gerald Carter book (actually I borrowed it)
and I would give it 7/10, or alpha minus.
I was amazed when looking around how bad all the online introductions
on OpenLDAP that I found were.
(If I have to read another history of X509 I may jump out of the window.)
Certainly Carter's book is far better than any of these.
It still seems to me that there ought to be a simple 10-page exposition
on OpenLDAP, but if there is I haven't found it.
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Timothy Murphy
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