Email at Fermilab

LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a rapidly evolving standard that is being used for everything from basic org charts and phone books to corporate directories containing information about every object in use at that corporation to authentication databases. It is also the basis for Microsoft’s Active Directory in Windows NT 5. All entries are objects and can be managed as such.

Here at Fermilab our first public application is for a simple phone book. This should be regarded as a BETA application and NOT relied on for anything that is mission critical. This is a copy of the web based telephone utility that is available at http://www-tele.fnal.gov/telephone. The same database is used so any incorrect information that is present in the telephone utility is present in the LDAP server. The server, ldap.fnal.gov, is available to the site (Offsite access is not permitted at this time.) for username and email address lookups. Any LDAP client can be used to query this server. Many popular email clients have LDAP support built in. Configuring these clients is simple and instructions are online. Other clients that are not covered need to be configured with the following information:

No authentication is required. Configure the client for anonymous access.