****Re: openldap + kmail

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:11 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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

I tried using the "stooges" example and went cross-eyed attempting it.
If you were to open several tabs in Firefox, with several different
"LDAP How-to's" in each, you'd see them start off the same, for the
first couple of entries, then diverge into different methodologies. That
is not a learning experience. It's confusing. For someone who thinks
they have some Linux background, running up against this beast is
daunting. Ric
 
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