It’s not so easy to use kaddressbook that connect to an openLDAP Server. We want to use a secure openLDAP Server that needs some tweeky config stuff.
openLDAP configuration
- Download your root-CA file and save it, for example /etc/ssl/openldap/class3.cacert.crt
- Edit the openldap configuration file, /etc/openldap/ldap.conf:
BASE dc=ad, dc=company, dc=com URI ldap://ad.company.com HOST ad.company.com TLS_CACERT /etc/ssl/openldap/class3.cacert.crt TLS_REQCERT never
kaddressbook configuration
- Adding a new ldap connection via the configuration menu
- For the following settings you must know how your ldap server is configured…username, password, a.s.o.
- Example:
Name: ldapcon [x] Read-only User: first.last@company.com Password: ... Host: ad.company.com Port: 636 LDAP-V: 3 DN: DC=ad,DC=company,DC=com Filter: sn=* Security: SSL Authe: Simple [x] Sub-tree queryThat’s it :-) Here are also some small links that might be interesting:
- http://www.brennan.id.au/20-Shared_Address_Book_LDAP.html
- http://www.hoernerfranzracing.de/kde/ldap.html
