Tom wrote regarding '[SLE] Does anyone know of a really plain/simple LDAP server program' on Thu, Aug 26 at 10:01:

I played with OpenLDAP last night for several hours and came to the conclusion that someone somewhere must have made a really simple LDAP server program. I don't need replication or a supreme server....just a simple server for 7-10 users who don't need a CIA level security.

Does anyone know of a straight forward, simple, LDAP server(or some other program....it doesn't have to be LDAP) that can be used to share contact information and possibly calendars? I'll take contact information first.

If the problem is managing the data rather than configuring the server itself (which is pretty easy), you might consider somehing like the MySQL backend or one of the scripting language backends. That way you can use OpenLDAP to present an LDAP interface to data stored in a place you can manipulate with more familiar tools. I'm using the perl backend, for example, to provide a gateway to some particular addresses stored in a MySQl contact database (no, the MySQL backend won't do the filtering that I need). It's really pretty easy. Alternatively, I'm not sure how someone would make a simpler LDAP server. There's not much to the server itself at all - the confusion that I had came almost entirely from setting up a sensible dn and managing the data that's in the bdb backend. Perhaps that's just me, though. :) --Danny

On Thursday 26 August 2004 19:09, Danny Sauer wrote:

If the problem is managing the data rather than configuring the server itself (which is pretty easy),

Would you please elaborate on this or post a useful link? I've been struggling with setting it up. Not so much to get the server running, I've got that going and can do anonymous searches. But trying to add anything into it proved to be a pain (the examples on the openldap website didn't work - I keep getting circular problems). What I'm looking at is really just two things - having a place where both Outlook/Kmail ect and web interfaces like squirrelmail and egroupware can get their addresses from and store new ones. That, and having a system for a single password accross services. thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za