Seting up an LDAP address book on Ubuntu

22 Mar 2006

Quick and dirty on installing OpenLDAP as an addressbook server.

• install

sudo aptitude install slapd ldap-utils

• configure (if needed)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow slapd

• edit /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

#include         /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
 suffix          "dc=snowfrog, dc=net"
 rootdn          "cn=admin,dc=snowfrog,dc=net"
 rootpw          secret

• edit /etc/ldap/ldap.conf

$ cat ldap.conf
 HOST    127.0.0.1
 BASE    dc=snowfrog,dc=net
 URI     ldap://localhost

• check working

ldapsearch -x

• create a file that creates address book OU, and import

$ cat foo
 dn: dc=snowfrog, dc=net
 objectclass: top
 objectclass: dcObject
 objectclass: organization
 o: snowfrog
 dc: snowfrog
 dn: ou=addressbook, dc=snowfrog, dc=net
 objectclass: top
 objectclass: organizationalUnit
 ou: addressbook
 $ ldapadd -x -W -D 'cn=admin,dc=snowfrog, dc=net' -f foo -H "ldap://sandia.snowfrog.net"

• in Thunderbird, export addresses to addr.ldif, then convert dumped address book to importable format

sed 's/^givenName:/displayName:/; /mozillaAbPersonObsolete/d; /modifytimestamp:/d; /dn:
 cn=/s/mail=.*/ou=addressbook,dc=snowfrog,dc=net/' addr.ldif > addr2.ldif

• convert .muttrc aliases

sed -n '/^alias/p' .muttrc | awk '$2 !~ /^z/ {print "#commentndn: cn=" $2
 ",ou=addressbook,dc=snowfrog,dc=netncn: " $2 "nsn: " $2 "nmail: " $3 "ndisplayName: " $2
 "nobjectClass: topnobjectClass: personnobjectClass: organizationalPersonnobjectClass:
 inetOrgPersonn"  }' > /etc/ldap/addr2.ldif

• import to OpenLDAP server

ldapadd -c -x -W -D 'cn=admin,dc=snowfrog, dc=net' -f addr2.ldif -H "ldap://sandia.snowfrog.net"

• connect to LDAP server using Evolution; Thunderbird doesn’t have enough options