[Fedora-directory-users] What next?

[Jeff Clowser]

It all depends on your client apps.  Client apps, in this case, are 
pretty much anything that talks to the directory server (i.e. 
thunderbird, a mail server that uses ldap for user info, etc.).

In the case of using thunderbird as an addressbook client:
1.  click on the addressbook button.
2.  under the file menu, select new->LDAP Directory
3.  For the name, put a name, like "Corporate directory".  For hostname, 
put the name of your ldap server.  For basedn, put the suffix (top of 
your tree).  Set the port number to whatever you configed directory 
server for (probably leave as 389).
4.  If you don't have anonymous access (I think the default aci's leave 
it on), enter the dn of your account (probably something like 
uid=jdoe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com).

Save that, and you should now be able to use that directory when 
composing email (by clicking "contacts").

That configs thunderbird to look at the directory.  You have to populate 
the directory server with users then, and there are lots of ways to do 
that, such as console, ldif, etc.  I think Thunderbird probably only 
looks at objectclass=person or something like that - look at the 
directory server access logs to see exactly what it is looking for to 
find entries, then put users in that match that and meet schema 
requirements.

For a purely contact type entry, probably something that is objectclass 
top, person, organizationalperson, and inetorgperson would do it.  Then 
populate things like givenname, cn, sn, mail, telephonenumber, 
facsimiletelephonenumber, mobile (aka cell), pager, l (aka city), st, 
street, postaladdress, postalcode, etc.  Start with creating a user in 
console, then figure out what data you want to see, then figure out what 
attribute is appropriate and add it.

 - Jeff

Chris Curran wrote:

> Thanks Adam - I have consulted the Admin Guide. I don't see anything 
> in there that covers any specific need - like how to add entries that 
> will be used as a contact list from Thunderbird (what schema, what 
> object class, what attributes?).
>
> The admin guide seems very generic... Did I miss something?
>
> thanks,
> Chris Curran
>
> On 8/2/05, *Adam Stokes* <astokes at redhat.com 
> <mailto:astokes at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey Chris,
>
>     You should check out the administrator's guide :
>
>     http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/adminTOC.html
>
>     adam
>
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