Re: Newbie: Setting up LDAP as a directory service

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

> I am looking for a straight forward HOWTO, for setting up an LDAP server 
> which will allow users using Outlook etc to lookup email addresses.
> I found a script which generated an LDIF file from the /etc/passwd file, 
> this file was then updated into the DB. Yet the system won't respond to any 
> queries.
> Is there any straight forward way of doing this?

Try the FAQ-O-Matic for information on Outlook.  The migration script
created posixAccount objects, which isn't anything Outlook cares about. 
I think Outlook wants "officePerson" objects.