[Kolab-devel] LDAP DN reorganization.

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

> I'm relatively new to the Kolab development world, and I'm really impressed
> with the amount of work completed in this project.
> 
>  
> 
> As I've been looking through the code base and reviewing my Kolab 2
> installation, I've come across an issue with LDAP.  It seems that Kolab 2
> uses the First Name and Last Name attributes to compose the base cn
> attribute of an entry's distinguished name (DN).  In my experience, this
> presents a challenge (and a kolab UI error) when you have two people with
> the same names.  Here in the States, that can be a common problem.  Is their
> a commonly known drawback in other areas of Kolab2 to use the unique ID
> attribute for the DN?  Since UIDs must be unique, we could avoid name
> collisions in the cn=internal branch of the tree.

Hi,

You might want to use LAM - LDAP Account Manager - http://lam.sf.net - 
for managing Kolab accounts (but then don't use Kolab web-GUI for 
editing such created users).

It creates users in a "right" format:

uid=bbaggins,ou=Users,dc=my,dc=server

and Kolab can read it.


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Tomek
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