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

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Try looking in the Arch wiki or any other documentation they have.  It has a reputation for being the best documentation of any project but i suspect the people who say that are a bit biased.  

As i understand it LDAP is not trivial anyway so if you are being scared off it might be good to walk away from it for now and return to it in a few weeks after maybe re-reading about some of the underlaying technologies.  I don't understand it and tend to elave all that sort of thing to my companies external consultant (a Debian chap so he is still kinda in the family)
Regards from 
Tom :)  





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 From: Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
To: Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> 
Cc: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 15:08
Subject: Re: Serverguide LDAP chapter ( was RE: Unsupported Wiki Page Suggested Format (Idea))
 


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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