This introduction to LDAP held a lot of promise. It gives a very good, balanced overview of LDAP and various implementations. Much better than any of the other introductions I have read. However, the Stanford case study, which supposedly would culmenate everything, leading you to a working LDAP implementation, simply turned out to be an outline of how Stanford does things... Sigh.

After finishing the book, I installed OpenLDAP on my system and ran into the same problems I had run into previously. OpenLDAP is easy to install and operate. However, getting remote access permissions right and figuring out the correct way to add data is still a exercise in mind numbing details.

(It only took three hours from the time I got things working until I finally succeeded in getting Evolution to add a single contact.)