LDAP people edit - how to

Given the issue with Shared Contacts, I was looking for a way to edit the LDAP based Shared Contacts myself with a third party tool, so I could fix them to work with Apple's Address Book and Thunderbird Address Book.
I have found very few tools that could authenticate with a default Open Directory set up - mainly because the client needs to be able to authenticate with SASL, and handle CRAM-MD5 challenge responses.
The one LDAP editor I found that works is Apache Directory Studio - http://directory.apache.org/studio/
Once installed, the settings are basically (assuming your Leopard server is yamato.internal):
*Network Parameter*
Hostname: yamato.internal
Port: 389
Encryption: <No encryption or SSL depending on your setup>
Authentication
Authentication Method: CRAM-MD5 (SASL)
Bind DN or User: <Your username>
Bind Password: <Your password>
*Browser Options*
Base DN: cn=people,dc=yamato,dc=internal
All other defaults.
Then you can connect, and browse to entries. You can edit the entries and save them.
This means you can, for example, find apple-emailcontacts for example, and replace with mail attributes.
You could even use it as a crude way to enter Shared Contacts, by creating a template entry, and using that for new entries. Not pretty, but at least will give you correct attributes for LDAP Address Book searches.
Hope that comes in useful to someone searching these forums for answers.

Hey Murdoch,
First of all, are you even able to search your LDAP tree ( via ldapsearch ) ?
Does browsing the tree require authentication or have you left it open ?
Are you able to authenticate via LDAP ?
Does "getent passwd" return a listing of your LDAP users ?
Do you receive any error messages during your boot sequence regarding udev or netfs ?
Do you receive an error message when attempting to start udev manually ?
Have you checked your log files ?

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