Craig White wrote: >> Is anyone successfully using openldap to maintain an address book? > ---- > sure - lots of them I've seen many discussions of this, but never seen an actual example of an ldap address book working with KDE kontact/kaddressbook. >> As far as I can see, if you save kaddressbook data in LDIF format, >> the resulting file has to be extensively modified >> before it becomes acceptable to openldap. >> >> Eg the DN of a typical entry in the LDIF file reads >> dn: cn=Andrew Ryan,mail=aryan27@xxxxxx >> which openldap certainly will not like. > ---- > it's not openldap that *wouldn't like this* - it's that there is nothing > that says that an ldif file that program X creates in an 'export' > operation will match up to the restrictions imposed by your LDAP > setup...which is generally the case. I'm no expert in openldap, but I don't see why kaddressbook doesn't use the LDAP DN specified in the KAddressBook->LDAP Lookup when creating the LDIF. Or at least it could ask you what DNs you want to use. > all you need to do is to figure out a way to edit (sed/awk/perl/?) this > ldif in a way that matches your setup so that you can import these > things without a problem. > > for example... > while this isn't likely to work... > dn: cn=Andrew Ryan,mail=aryan27@xxxxxx > this could conceivably work... > dn: cn=Andrew > Ryan,mail=aryan27@xxxxxx,ou=AddressBook,dc=gayleard,dc=org That's more or less exactly what I do. But I don't think it should be necessary. >> What puzzles me about this is that the issue must be one >> which occurs to many people. >> How is one meant to keep a "global" address book under Fedora? > Well, since Kmail is a 'write' capapble LDAP client, it is possible to > simply create an empty LDAP 'organizationalUnit' for an address book and > add entries directly via Kaddressbook. This of course insists that you > comport with specific rules such as entries that absolutely require an > 'sn' attribute (last name), etc. Is it possible to do that? Could you be a bit more specific please? I thought one needed to include the host (ou=People,dc=www,dc=xyz,dc=com in my case)? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
