[Fedora-directory-users] What next?
Rich Megginson
rmeggins at redhat.com
Tue Aug 2 22:05:23 UTC 2005
Chris Curran wrote:
> Thanks Jeff. I already have Tbird logging into FDS
Tbird logging into FDS? What does that mean?
> - what I don't have is any info showing up in Tbird. Further, I tried
> to export my current data
From what system? From OpenLDAP?
> so that I could see what FDS is expecting, but it errors out on
> 'userroot' with "export failed (-1)".
Can you tell me how to reproduce this error?
>
> As to digging around in the log files... That's not really an option.
> We were evaluating FDS with the object being to purchase RHDS... Being
> fresh back from an hour long meeting, well, the edict from above is to
> find complete documentation on how to make FDS/RHDS interoperate with
> Tbird or drop the project.
There does not exist "officially supported" documentation either from
Fedora or Red Hat or Mozilla. You might be able to find something with
Google. I would be surprised if there were officially supported
documentation from any Directory Server vendor with respect to
Thunderbird integration since it's relatively new.
>
> thanks,
> Chris Curran
>
> On 8/2/05, Jeff Clowser <jclowser at unitedmessaging.com
> <mailto:jclowser at unitedmessaging.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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