Re: openldap + kmail
Craig White wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using openldap to maintain an address
book?
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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(a)tcd.ie
> which openldap certainly will not like.
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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(a)tcd.ie
this could conceivably work...
dn: cn=Andrew
Ryan,mail=aryan27(a)tcd.ie,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)?