Have you ever tried to share your contact list with someone who uses a different data format, or tried to migrate your address book to another application? If so, you know it can be a headache. Import and export schemes, if they exist at all, are often too clunky and unsatisfactory to use even once, much less on a regular basis. Enter the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. This tutorial shows you how to create an LDAP-based backend to store contact information that multiple applications can share easily. Along the way, we give you an overview of LDAP fundamentals and introduce you to a pre-built contact management tool that will help you get started using this open technology.

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Prerequisites

Readers should have a basic working knowledge of common administrative tasks and the concepts behind them. This includes tasks such as setting file permissions, managing user accounts, moving and copying files, creating symlinks, etc.

System requirements

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To follow along with the examples in this tutorial, you'll need access to a correctly installed and configured Linux system with:

• Red Hat Linux 7.3. Operating system-specific instructions are based on Red Hat Linux 7.3. Red Hat Linux was chosen because of its popularity, and because most administrators/users have at least a passing acquaintance with its system layout and conventions.
• OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is used as an LDAP directory server. OpenLDAP is open source, based on open standards, and available as a free download. For the most part, however, the structures, layout, and administrative tasks discussed are readily transferable to commercially available directory servers such as IBM's SecureWay Server and Netscape's Directory Server offering.

Duration

Under two hours

Formats

HTML, PDF, Zip

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