On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> 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. > > So no one expects anyone to have more than one fedora box and need them > to share network authentication? > > > i.e., isn't that what your > > 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does? > > I thought the point of using any packaged distribution was that its own > components would work together. E-smith (now SME server) just does a > kickstart install and provides a web interface that does all your > config-file editing for you with a few concepts combined - mostly geared > towards being server for windows boxes. It does provide an ldap setup > suitable for an outlook address book, but it can't authenticate against > its own LDAP server let alone a different instance. ---- perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE Craig
