Serverguide LDAP chapter ( was RE: Unsupported Wiki Page Suggested Format (Idea))

[Jonathan Aquilina]

It is making me very apprehensive about working with it. I find it very
interesting how better documented samba as a primary domain controller
setup  is compared to ldap. even searching on google its hard to find any
good documentation.


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:

> On 2013.09.24 16:05 Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>
> Your e-mail might not have been reviewed by the target
> audience because the subject line was not changed. Myself,
> and due to current workload, I was not opening the
> "wiki" e-mails.
>
> > This is actually directed at the docs team. Is it possible
> > for the docs for 14.04 to be a bit more user friendly?
>
> I doubt it for at least two reasons: The serverguide suffers
> from not enough contributing help, and specifically subject
> matter expert contributions; Many, if not most, subjects
> of the serverguide are very complicated, difficult to
> understand, and targeted towards system administrator types.
>
> > I was looking at the LDAP documentation in the server guide
> > for 12.04 and I was petrified and totally lost. I feel that
> > some of the pages are designed in such a way as to scare
> > people off.
>
> I have never implemented LDAP, so can not comment on that
> specific chapter. However, I can assure you the chapter was not
> designed to scare you off.
>
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openldap-server.html
>
> > the above should be simple enough to get a simple working LDAP
> > server going.
>
>
>
>


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Jonathan Aquilina
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