[mdlug] anyone using ldap for a thunderbird address book?

Tue Aug 14 08:53:33 EDT 2012

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 06:50 -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote: 
> On 08/12/2012 11:42 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > Carl, if you do end up with openldap, beyond doing something trivial, 
> > I recommend you do NOT go with the redhat binaries; compile the latest 
> > openldap from source. I imagine RHEL6 has a semi-reasonable version 
> > but RHEL5 is scary bad old code.
> I just need something trivial...a single OU for contacts.  My plan
> is to use the el6 binaries just so I can learn first hand how to set
> it up and make it work.

The EL6 packages should be stable.  But Dan is correct about the
versions included in EL5 - they will eat your data.

> In the future I may start authenticating off it, and at that point
> I'll consider replacing it with a better version.  One of the guys
> at work is annoyed that openldap won't let a group be a member
> of a group.

This is false.  There are numerous extensions [overlays in OpenLDAP
parlance] that let you do some very cool stuff regarding 'groups'.

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