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LDAP configuration taking more time than the backend

I didn't expect that, but new configuration system (cn=config) in slapd and differences in distribution version (karmik and Lucid) prevented me to complete the auto-configuration for LDAP backend (autoconfiguration can be tricky if you want to make it right).

As of now the 'pure backend' (users and groups management) works perfectly over LDAP, provided that you manually setup the slapd frontend ("o" and different "ou"'s). You can find out every detail on the LDAPBackend wiki page. There is more information than you need, because the wiki page expects that you start from a Karmak setup (totally empty), whereas in Lucid the module and backend parts of slapd are already present.

Samba part is not yet implemented, but will come later. It needs several things to be worked out before.