On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:11 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > No - you misunderstood him > > > > It is not possible to have a 'DN: Address Book' > > No, it is you who misunderstand. > I was _asked_ for the DN, > and the only response that worked was "Address Book". > > Bizarrely, I just checked, and now any response works - > presumably the DN (or RDN) has been stored somewhere. > > > All you need is suitable 'ou' with ACL permissions to access that 'ou' > > and if that 'ou' were called 'People_I_Want_to_SPAM', Kaddressbook would > > be happy with that too. Of course, that gets into the nuts and bolts of > > LDAP. Having an 'ou' called 'Address Book' or 'AddressBook' has no > > meaning to Kaddressbook unless Kaddressbook is configured to use the DN > > like... > > ou=AddressBook,dc=xyz,dc=com > > KAddressBook had already asked for my host. > The only sense I can make of it is that KAddressBook constructed the DN > from this, together with "Address Book", which I gave in response to "DN". > > Incidentally, the reason I did this was that I was following > the yolinux tutorial at > <http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html>. > You are invited to access their LDAP server, > and I found that I could indeed see their address book > in my KAddressBook when I gave Host: ldap.yo-linux.com , DN: o=stooges . > This was following their general instructions, which read (in part): > > * Name: YoLinux Demo > * Hostname: ldap.yo-linux.com > * Base DN: o=stooges I tried using the "stooges" example and went cross-eyed attempting it. If you were to open several tabs in Firefox, with several different "LDAP How-to's" in each, you'd see them start off the same, for the first couple of entries, then diverge into different methodologies. That is not a learning experience. It's confusing. For someone who thinks they have some Linux background, running up against this beast is daunting. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
