[vox-tech] rant and questions about LDAP

[Paul]

I want to run openldap on my home server.
Actually, I just want to centralize all of our address books and ldap 
looked like the best way to do it.
It was easy to install (apt-get install several things), then I tried to 
configure it.
Whoever designed the slapd.conf file was some combination of evil and 
perverted.
The values in the file are the opposite of self-documenting 
(non-documenting, confusing, unintuitive, fubar). Almost nothing makes 
any sense at all. Even the examples I've found just tell me what to put 
in without telling me why or what my choices are and what the best 
choice would be.

Now the questions
Does anyone have a better way to coordinate addressbooks over a couple 
of desktops?
Does anyone have ldap running on a small server and talking to Mozilla 
address books?
Does anyone know of a webpage that could be subtitled "slapd.conf for 
dummies"?
Does anyone know what slapd means?