Re: Using Openldap for office contacts
From: Joe (joe_at_jretrading.com)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:51:25 +0000 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
In message <35GXS-5pT-11@gated-at.bofh.it>, Robert S
<robert_s@emailme.net.au> writes
>I have installed debian in our office - principally for use as a mail
>server, using courier-imap. We've got about 6 windows PCs and one debian
>box. Has worked without a hitch and everyone is very pleased with it. I'm
>wondering if it might be possible to convert our contacts database
>(currently we're using MS Outlook 2000) over to Openldap. There would need
>to be some simple way with which we could modify records in the ldap
>database. So far it looks as if you need to write a program that converts a
>.csv to an .ldif file then import it into ldap. This is much too
>complicated - we'd need to be able to use a windows client program to do
>that.
>
>So far I've got the impression that there is no easy way of doing this at
>the moment.
>
>Is there a website that explains how to do this?
>
I don't think there's a mail client program that will do it. It's quite
possible to use a browser with perl/CGI on the server, platform
independent.
I'm using thttpd, not apache, and three CGI scripts of about 3K each to
do a simple listing (with Mailto: entries), an edit, and a new contact
page. It's very crude and only has email names and full names. You'd
want more fields for a proper contact list but that's not too hard. What
it doesn't have at all is proper security (the ldap admin's password is
hard-coded into the edit and write scripts) but that could be added.
Ldap is good at permissions.
It's the perl LDAP module that does all the clever bits, and it wouldn't
be hard to do a much more sophisticated job. The drawback is that you'd
need to get a bit familiar with perl, which has a fairly sharp initial
learning curve if you're used to more formal programming languages.
What you'll probably also find useful, if you don't already know about
it, is LDAPExplorerTool which runs under Windows and allows you to see
what's going on and fix mistakes.
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