From: W. Trevor King Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:38:11 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add Apple Address Book + LDAP information. X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4de74a5367d4a21e5e03a7b4c06d6e26d5ab18c;p=blog.git Add Apple Address Book + LDAP information. --- diff --git a/posts/Humanizing_OS_X.mdwn b/posts/Humanizing_OS_X.mdwn index 62b99e4..0b5f995 100644 --- a/posts/Humanizing_OS_X.mdwn +++ b/posts/Humanizing_OS_X.mdwn @@ -195,6 +195,29 @@ Add the FLAC with $ flukeapp path/to/my/music/directory +Address Book and LDAP +--------------------- + +You can configure Apple's [Address Book][aab] to search an LDAP +directory. Set up your connection with: + + /Applications/Address\ Book.app + Address Book -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Add + Account Type: LDAP + ... + +If you're using a self-signed certificate, you'll need to add your CA +to the system keyring or OS X will assume a man-in-the-middle attack +(and give you an uninformative "Can't contact LDAP server" error). +Add your certificate with: + + /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app + File -> Import Items + /path/to/your/CA/certificate + Destination Keychain: System + +After which everything should work as expected. + Remote desktop -------------- @@ -322,6 +345,7 @@ perspective, check out Amit Singh's 2003 [What is Mac OS X][wmox]. [Ogg Vorbis]: http://www.vorbis.com/ [xiphqt]: https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html [Fluke]: https://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/ +[aab]: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2486 [rd]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol [rd-ms]: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client [rd-a]: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/remotedesktopconnectionclient.html diff --git a/posts/LDAP.mdwn b/posts/LDAP.mdwn index b78ddd4..f108262 100644 --- a/posts/LDAP.mdwn +++ b/posts/LDAP.mdwn @@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ connection details via a config file (`~/.mutt-ldap.rc`) rather than editing the script itself. Usage details are available in the docstring. +Apple Address Book +------------------ + +You can configure Apple's [Address Book][aab] to search an LDAP +directory. See [[Humanizing_OS_X]] for details. + SSL/TLS ------- @@ -287,6 +293,7 @@ the countryName attribute, ... [rfc4512]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4512 [shelldap]: http://projects.martini.nu/shelldap/ [mutts]: http://wiki.mutt.org/?QueryCommand +[aab]: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2486 [SSL/TLS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security [certtool]:http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Invoking-certtool.html#Invoking-certtool [schema]: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/11/09/demystifying-ldap-data.html