[KLUG Members] Pesky LDAP - Grrr! Argh!

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>Grr!  Frustration!,

Grrr! Argh.

>Man, something is just *WRONG* here.  Now I know that LDAP can be used 
>for a lot of stuff but my understanding is that the two most common uses 
>are as an athentication system and as an address book.  

Arguably yes.

>The schemas for 
>doing this should have been included in the distrobution.  

They are.  More or less. :)

>A few extra 
>text files.  I really don't think it would have been to much to ask.
>netscapeCommunicator-[versionrange].schema
>mozilla-[versionrange].schema
>outlook-[versionrange].schema
>universalAddressbook.schema
>genericAddressbook.schema
>or some such.  

Really, nothing like this exists.  And would probably be impossible to create. 
The problem is non-compliant clients (and whose shocked by that).

>They wouldn't even have had to have been standardized. 
>Just something provided that one *can* use if one wants to.  What I've 
>got right now looks like nothing short of a mess.

The import process, or the objects themselves?