Directory Assistant

About

Directory Assistant is a small application for managing a LDAP address book. The focus is to create a very easy to use program, with only the few but necessary features. The target is novice users that have their addresses in an LDAP server.

News

21 December 2020: Directoryassistant 3.0 released!. After a long development pause, there is a new release. Directoryassistant is ported to python 3 with gtk3.

Debian includes Directoryassistant in the latest version, so Debian users should be able to install Directoryassistant using apt.

Screenshot

This is a screenshot from version 2.1:

When you double-click the found entry you can edit the entry:

Requirements

Directoryassistant 3.0 uses python3, gtk3 via gobject-introspection and python-ldap:

python 3 or package python3
gtk-3 or packages gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
python-ldap or package python3-ldap

Download & install

Unpack the tarball, cd directoryassistant-3.0/, edit the Makefile (by default it will install in prefix /usr/ but you can change that with the prefix line in the Makefile) and run sudo make install.

Configuration is done by config file, but since 2.1 this ia also possible from the GUI. The config file is very simple. An example is shown below:

[My Ldap Server]
ldapurl = ldap://your.ldap.server.com/
bind_dn = cn=someaccount,o=someorg
bind_password = yourpassword
base_dn = ou=department,ou=People,o=someorg
startup_search = myfamilyname
add_dn = ou=myunit,ou=department,ou=People,o=someorg

The config should be stored in /etc/directoryassistant or $HOME/.directoryassistant

Development

There is very little development on directoryassistant, it just works.

There is a CVS repository in which the development versions are available

Contact

Bugs can be reported in our bug tracker.

You can contact me at olivier (at) bluefish dot openoffice dot nl