address info / ldap question

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi Roger !

Have you tried Novell eDirectory ? I find that it is eminently suitable 
in environments where the administrators are only familiar with 
Microsoft stuff (i.e. they need a GUI) , or when the database 
administrator or sysadmin needs to get up to speed quickly on LDAP. 
eDirectory runs on Linux, and no, you do not need Netware in your server 
or anywhere in your network, in order for it to run. It is actually the 
latest incarnation of NDS and it comes with ConsoleOne, a graphical 
administration utility. I've written a StepByStep for it. It's quite 
extensible, and I've found that it is very close to OpenLDAP. I've 
written an LDIF file that could be imported into OpenLDAP and eDirectory 
with no modification. If you need to write LDAP applications, Novell 
provides a Java library that I tested successfully against both OpenLDAP 
and eDirectory.

No, I don't work for Novell, and the only reason why I am gushing about 
it is because it saved my ass a couple of times.

Regards,
pascal chong



Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>This looks interesting. But I wonder how extensible it is. For example, I
>did not see a place to enter an address. Company locations were there.
>
>I will have to check my Gentoo to see if there is an e-build. But, as I have
>gnome 2, and this wants 1.2 or later (but not 2)...
>
>This type of tool would really help.
>
>If I could just get the K addressbook's generated LDIF file to be fully
>digestible by all clients...
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