On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:13 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >> > >>> His confusion is very common...I admit that I too was confused by that > >>> very notion when I first started mucking with LDAP. One would think that > >>> if you use say OpenOffice to save say Test.DOC that Microsoft Word > >>> should be able to open that file [1]. Likewise, since LDIF is the world > >>> of LDAP, shouldn't one expect that an LDIF file exported by Kontact be > >>> usable with openldap? > >> Is there some reason that there isn't a standard schema shipped with the > >> server that supplies what the clients in the distribution expect? > > ---- > > If I understand your term 'clients' to mean an address book client like > > Kontact, I would venture to guess that Kontact like Evolution and all > > other address book clients each has their own schema. If you are > > decrying that all of the various address book clients all have differing > > notions about schema's, then you should take that up with them. > > > > Most, if not all LDAP implementations include an inetOrgPerson schema > > that is consistent because this is part of an RFC. Each of the address > > book clients that I have looked at, use attributes that go beyond the > > inetOrgPerson schema and that is what is really being discussed. > > > > Now if you are referring to something other than address book 'clients', > > then you will have to be more specific. > > I mean what you need if you check LDAP authentication in the system > authentication GUI or if you use it with samba as included in the > distribution. Adding optional attributes and aliases to support the > other clients in the distribution would make sense too. The question is > simply why doesn't the stuff included in the distribution come up > configured to match and working together? ---- I suppose if Fedora saw itself as providing a turnkey distribution with a notion towards a specific, pre-determined configuration that simply worked out of the box, that would occur. i.e., isn't that what your 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does? Craig
