Serverguide LDAP chapter ( was RE: Unsupported Wiki Page Suggested Format (Idea))

[Doug Smythies]

On 2013.09.24 16:05 Jonathan Aquilina wrote:

Your e-mail might not have been reviewed by the target
audience because the subject line was not changed. Myself,
and due to current workload, I was not opening the
"wiki" e-mails.

> This is actually directed at the docs team. Is it possible
> for the docs for 14.04 to be a bit more user friendly?

I doubt it for at least two reasons: The serverguide suffers
from not enough contributing help, and specifically subject
matter expert contributions; Many, if not most, subjects
of the serverguide are very complicated, difficult to
understand, and targeted towards system administrator types.

> I was looking at the LDAP documentation in the server guide
> for 12.04 and I was petrified and totally lost. I feel that
> some of the pages are designed in such a way as to scare
> people off.

I have never implemented LDAP, so can not comment on that
specific chapter. However, I can assure you the chapter was not
designed to scare you off.

> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openldap-server.html

> the above should be simple enough to get a simple working LDAP
> server going.