Re: [Fedora-directory-users] What next?

Rich Megginson
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:05:23 -0000

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@unitedmessaging.com
> <mailto:jclowser@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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