# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1286417762 25200 # Node ID 4492ee76e9180f8c9718d5b174ea4cb06cd851dc # Parent 96d70b5ac881ddc7d44be1f21e341b1336548a6a * doc/misc/eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information. diff -r 96d70b5ac881 -r 4492ee76e918 doc/misc/ChangeLog --- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog Tue Oct 05 19:19:42 2010 -0700 +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog Wed Oct 06 19:16:02 2010 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-10-07 Glenn Morris + + * eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information. + 2010-10-06 Glenn Morris * cl.texi (Usage, Installation): Remove outdated information. diff -r 96d70b5ac881 -r 4492ee76e918 doc/misc/eudc.texi --- a/doc/misc/eudc.texi Tue Oct 05 19:19:42 2010 -0700 +++ b/doc/misc/eudc.texi Wed Oct 06 19:16:02 2010 -0700 @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ LDAP servers usually store (but are not limited to) information about people such as their name, phone number, email address, office location, etc@enddots{} More information about LDAP can be found at -@url{http://www.openldap.org/} +@url{http://www.openldap.org/}. EUDC requires external support to access LDAP directory servers (@pxref{LDAP Requirements}) @@ -148,17 +148,15 @@ @section CCSO PH/QI The Central Computing Services Office (CCSO) of the University of -Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) created and freely distributes a -directory system that is currently in use in more than 300 organizations -around the world. The system records information about people such as -their address, phone number, email, academic information or any other -details it was configured to. +Illinois at Urbana Champaign created and freely distributed a +directory system that was used by many organizations in the 1990s. +The system records information about people such as their address, +phone number, email, academic information or any other details it was +configured to. Nowadays this system is not widely used. The system consists of two parts: a database server traditionally called -@samp{qi} and a command-line client called @samp{ph}. -@url{ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ph} is the main -distribution site. @url{http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup?Query=.} -provides a listing of the active @samp{qi} servers. +@samp{qi} and a command-line client called @samp{ph}. As of 2010, the +code can still be downloaded from @url{http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/}. The original command-line @samp{ph} client that comes with the @samp{ph/qi} distribution provides additional features like the @@ -225,18 +223,10 @@ @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section LDAP Requirements -LDAP support is added by means of @file{ldap.el} which is part of Emacs. +LDAP support is added by means of @file{ldap.el}, which is part of Emacs. @file{ldap.el} needs an external command line utility named -@file{ldapsearch} which is available as part of LDAP toolkits: - -@itemize @bullet -@item -Open LDAP Libraries -(@url{http://www.openldap.org/}) -@item -University of Michigan's LDAP Client software -(@url{http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/}) -@end itemize +@file{ldapsearch}, available as part of Open LDAP +(@url{http://www.openldap.org/}). @node Usage, Credits, Installation, Top @@ -968,7 +958,3 @@ @printindex vr @bye - -@ignore - arch-tag: 1b79460b-4ea1-441d-ab45-05ddd16ef241 -@end ignore