Customer vs Company

[Derek Atkins]

Feel free to submit patches..  Right now, it would be rather
challenging (IMHO).  But I don't understand LDAP.

-derek

plussier at mindspring.com writes:

> In a message dated: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:47:23 CST
> Linas Vepstas said:
> 
> >Its reasonable to expect 
> >the gnucash addressbook to be visible to evolution, and v.v. but very 
> >very unfortuantely, therere is no Linux system architecture for this kind 
> >of thing. (LDAP is too hard to install/use/administer).
> 
> But unfortunately perfectly ideal for this exact use scenario :(
> 
> Although, now that I think about it, using OpenLDAP isn't all that 
> difficult, nor is installation/setup, especially if done via some 
> pacakge management system like RPM or apt-get.  
> 
> Granted, a source install/config might be far beyond the 
> non-sysadmin, but I wouldn't expect your average GnuCash user to be 
> installing from source to begin with.
> 
> Since Evolution can query and LDAP server, how difficult would it be 
> to get GnuCash to store this type of data into an LDAP server?
> 
> I'm in the process of learning LDAP now, and using OpenLDAP, I'm 
> finding it to be a relatively simple thing from an implementation 
> side.  Even writing the perl code to manipulate the LDAP server in 
> the manner I need for my project isn't overly difficult.
> 
> Just some random thoughts here.
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> Paul
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