[rharder]

Yes, that's how Apple uses it, if you have it configured that way for your network. You can have your login name and password served up from an LDAP server or something, but for the rest of us, it can be useful to share our addressbook with other users (like family).

Attached is the script. It creates an AddressBook.nidb folder in your Documents folder (you can move it). Then you update your /etc/openldap/slapd.conf file to point to that AddressBook.nidb folder instead of /var/db/netinfo/network.nidb, and voila you have an LDAP server giving up your email and phone numbers. Of course you have to start the ldap server with something like sudo /usr/libexec/slapd or by adding LDAPSERVER=-YES- to /etc/hostconfig and restarting.

-Rob