kolab 3.2 with openldap?

[John McMonagle]

Paul

That explains the openldap issue.

I'll switch to centos if needed but my biggest concern is ldap.
To me kolab is just one of many ldap applications.
There is one master and 6 slaves counting kolab.

I expected some ldap challenges but so far a lot nastier than I expected.
Currently I'm running a kolab 2.3 in debian squeeze host.
Have kolab's ldap server disabled and kolab connecting to a squeeze ldap slave 
on localhost.
On it have added all the needed schema and monitor module for kolab to see new 
accounts.
Then this is a syncrepl  of the master.
I'm sure it's not perfect but it works.

I wonder if I could continue to do like I am doing?
If so are there any schema changes etc?
Will the monitor module still work with kolab?
Hate to have to manually create mailboxes.

The other way I can think of is keep kolab on 389 server  but as a openldap 
slave?
From my goggling sounds like there may not be any syncing options between 389 
server and opendap server.

Suppose could switch totally to 389 server but if there are no syncing options 
between the 389 server and openldap it would  be the project from hell that 
would have to rolled out in one night along with the kolab upgrade.

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks

John McMonagle

On Friday, April 11, 2014 05:45:12 pm Paul Boddie wrote:
> 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
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