Using the UW Electronic Directory Service LDAP
Topics on this page
- The UW Directories Web page
- LDAP and directory.washington.edu
- Configuring your software to use directory.washington.edu
- Limiting Use to Either the Student or Faculty/Staff Listings
- Warning!
The UW Directories Web Page
From the UW Directories Web page, you can search the databases containing directory information for both UW students and UW employees. When UW students, faculty, and staff provide directory information to either the Office of the Registrar (students) or their department payroll coordinator (faculty and staff), they can either approve or disapprove of the public release of their directory information. You will find information on all those students and employees who gave their consent.Directory entries include telephone numbers and email addresses as well as other information provided by the individual (i.e., major, student status; department, work title).
LDAP and directory.washington.edu
You can access the combined student/faculty/staff directories with any software that can communicate using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The most common type of software that uses LDAP is email software, which can be configured to automatically look up addresses and other information on a specified server, when names are entered in the To: line while composing an email message. Many different email packages support this type of use of LDAP, including Pine (version 4 and up), Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 98, Netscape Messenger, Eudora (version 4 and above), and others. The LDAP directory service at the UW is available at the Internet address directory.washington.edu
Configuring Your Software to Use directory.washington.edu
In general, you must first configure your software to use the LDAP server named directory.washington.edu This server uses port 389 (which is usually the default port and will not need to be set by you).
You also have to specify what is known in LDAP lingo as a "search base". The search base for the UW LDAP server is
o=University of Washington, c=US
Configuring Desktop Email Clients to Use LDAP gives step by step instructions for setting up Outlook Express,Pine, PC-Pine (version 4.0 and higher) to use directory.washington.edu with LDAP.
Limiting Use to Either the Student or Faculty/Staff Listings
You can set up your software to see just the student or just the faculty/staff part of the directory. In order to do this, you need to change the "search base" by entering the appropriate value:
- for Student Directory, ou=Students, ou=People, o=University of Washington, c=US
- for Staff Directory, ou=Faculty and Staff, ou=People, o=University of Washington, c=US
Warning!
Pursuant to RCW 42.56, the UW is providing this directory information for non-commercial purposes only. Any use of the information for commercial purposes is prohibited.
