kolab 3.2 with openldap?

[Paul Boddie]

On Friday 11. April 2014 22.04.46 John McMonagle wrote:
> Currently running kolab 2.3 and trying to do a test installation to learn
> kolab 3.2.
> 
> Currently have lots of openldap slapd servers and would rather not change.
> For my test am doing install with debian wheezy and I installed slapd first
> and then kolab. I then ran  "setup-kolab --with-openldap"
> 
> slapd is not being initialized by setup-kolab.
> Am I doing something wrong or is openldap not really supported?

Currently, setup-kolab doesn't do anything to initialise OpenLDAP directories: 
the code uses setup-ds, which appears to be a 389-ds thing, although I could 
be mistaken about this.

The actual schema population is probably applicable to OpenLDAP, however, but 
I defer to people with real LDAP experience to confirm or deny this. I know 
that Diane Trout was looking to use OpenLDAP instead of 389-ds, and there is 
some discussion of this in a recent blog post of hers:

http://ghic.org/~diane/bottom-up-kolab.html

> Prefer debian but want it to be reliable. Am I better off running centos?

CentOS seems to be the preferred platform right now. There are some efforts to 
deliver Debian packages, but progress is slow and active interest appears 
relatively low. Help and encouragement for Debian packaging is very welcome!

Paul