****Re: openldap + kmail

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Apr 30 23:11:52 UTC 2008


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









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