kde kontact (kaddressbook) with (open-)LDAP

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

  1. Download your root-CA file and save it, for example /etc/ssl/openldap/class3.cacert.crt
  2. 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

  1. Adding a new ldap connection via the configuration menu
  2. For the following settings you must know how your ldap server is configured…username, password, a.s.o.
  3. 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 query

    That’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