simple LDAP for address book?

Bradley pursley001 at comcast.net
Mon Jul 13 15:37:18 UTC 2009


On 07/13/2009 09:39 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Every once and I while I take a look at trying to setup an
> LDAP server on my system for keeping address book info (so
> I can access it remotely as I already do with my dovecot IMAP
> server).
>
> Every time I start looking at it, I find way too much
> information about enterprise class directory servers
> and sql back ends and user authentication, etc.
>
> Anyone know of a simple howto somewhere on the net for
> setting up LDAP just to use for a personal address book?
> (Preferably some server offered in fedora repos).
>
> I have this feeling I could write my own custom LDAP
> server in less time than I could understand the documentation
> for the existing ones :-).
Let me know when you figure this out. I've wanted to do something 
similar but also got bogged down by T.M.I. for something simple I wanted 
to do.

Bradley




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