I've had luck setting up the OpenLDAP server (sibling of Fedora
Directory Server) and getting Thunderbird to read names out of it,
though I never tried writing back to it, or working with a single
address book versus one global address book.
It's a bit difficult at first because you have to understand that LDAP
uses a tree structure, so e.g. if you wanted to have per-account
address books in LDAP, you would need to configure each client's base
DN appropriately, e.g.
ou=AddressBook,ou=UserName,ou=People,dc=server,dc=com, or however you
decide to organize it. That string path is a tree map, with each
proceeding entry acting as a sibling to the one that comes next. The
idea is kind of like DNS, e.g. 'com' is the master of 'server', which
is the master of 'People', which has a 'UserName', who has a subtree
'AddressBook'. OpenLDAP's /etc/ config file lets you specify different
usernames and passwords to access different parts of the tree. I'm
sure if you decide one day to use LDAP for single sign-on, you can use
those credentials as the address book credentials too.
It is a bit difficult but I wouldn't say it's overkill any more so
than IMAP is overkill compared to local mail delivery, and it's
definitely the open standards way to do networked address books, imo.
On Jul 13, 2009, at 7:39 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 :-).
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