[Kroupware] LDAP Adressbook schema

[Dieter Kluenter]

Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-kolab at benshaw.com> writes:

>> we are migrating more and more parts of our setup over to ldap.
>> Therefore I'm looking for a ldap schema file which can cover various
>> addressbook issues. I found some schemas (and I have seen you use
>> them, too). However, I cannot find anything about the birthday of an
>> user. I saw in your mailinglist[1] that you discussed the schema
>> definition some time ago. Is there any documentation regarding the
>> outcome? I coudn't find anything that would help me. I do not want
>> to create my own definition, but rather use open standards, since we
>> want to migrate fully away from microsoft-outlook, and kroupware is
>> very interesting to us.
>
> No help, but rather a question regarding where you find LDAP schemas.
> I'm more or less in the same boat as you.  I seem to recall an
> ldapschema.org or sommat but it was very disorganized at the time.  It
> seems that everyone tends to copy everyone else's schema, which tends
> to end up with a little circular logic as to how things are done.  :-)

Quite frankly, it is rather difficult to write general purpose
schemas. Most applications rely on their own attributes and
objectclasses as developers just define an attribute (birthDay or
dateOfBirth or birthDate) an than start searching for an apropriate
schema which would fit their attribute. :-(
As example compare ldap-abook and evolution. Ldap-abook uses DoB and
evolution birthDate, not to mention mozilla addressbook, which
requires a completely different attribute and objectclass and both are
not publicly available.
Therefor it is much easier for an administrator to write his own
schema, that fits his requirements.

-Dieter

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