LDAP be killing me. I need a good step by step

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jan 10 02:53:46 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:02 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Les Mikesell:
> >> Is there some reason that there isn't a standard schema shipped with the 
> >> server that supplies what the clients in the distribution expect?
> 
> Craig White:
> > If I understand your term 'clients' to mean an address book client like
> > Kontact, I would venture to guess that Kontact like Evolution and all
> > other address book clients each has their own schema. If you are
> > decrying that all of the various address book clients all have differing
> > notions about schema's, then you should take that up with them.
> 
> I would think that Les was thinking what I was:  If you supply a
> distribution with specific LDAP and mail software, that you'd also
> supply the bits that allowed them to work together, particularly your
> flagship products.
> 
> e.g. Configurations to suit using LDAP with Evolution, kmail,
> Thunderbird, etc.
> 
> You can't really expect Evolution, et al, to supply it, because they
> don't know what LDAP server you've included.
----
Were you trying to make the fact that you don't know what you're talking
about so obvious that you ran it up a flag pole or did it just happen by
accident?

do this...

# rpm -ql evolution-data-server|grep schema

Craig




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