fre, 02.04.2004 kl. 22.15 skrev Bruce Richardson:
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> LDAP is effectively read-only. It's trivial to search any given LDAP
> directory for e-mail addresses: you don't have to understand the
> structure of the specific directory because you just do a subtree
> search. But there is no standard for updating LDAP directories.
This just isn't so. I'm an LDAP aficionado, this server is running
Openldap 2.2.8 and my Ximian Evolution client (this MUA) can update LDAP
to the extent that I as the LDAP admin decree. It's not LDAP that can
not be updated, added to, managed by clients, it's a shortcoming of the
client. Furthermore, Openldap integrates perfectly with Windows up to
2003 via Samba 3.
> So you
> can't implement user addresbooks via LDAP (not via the e-mail client,
> anyway).
I can :)
> An ODBC database connection would be a different matter,
> however. I'd be entirely happy if the designer of a GUI e-mail client
> dictated the table structure they wanted to use, since I could fake it
> with views.
Openldap can incorporate an SQL backend that can be updated with an
iODBC driver, though it's kludgey ("why mix up database types?").
> > All Exchange user information is available over LDAP, are you suggesting
> > that LDAP is a pseudo-database?
>
> Read-only, see above.
Not so, see above ;)
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