I noticed a feature request early 2005, where Brian had said that hopefully Q1 2005 there would be the ability to publish company/contact details to LDAP and then update LDAP when changes have been made in XRMS. Has this been done yet? If so can anyone provide any information.
Many Thanks, Kenny
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I've not looked or tried this particular php script, but normally I would run php from the commandline with php -f somephpfile.php so in this case it would be php -f export-companies-ldap.php
Hope that helps.
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I do not know the technical details, but I have an LDAP with XRMS. As a user, I use Evolution 1.4 with the Mandriva Corporate Desktop. Within Evolution, I have the XRMS LDAP configured as a directory server.
Then within Evolution-> Tools-> Settings-> Folder Settings-> Autocompletion Folders, I have the XRMS LDAP selected.
When I create an email, Evolution pulls the information from my local directory, and from all of the names in XRMS. It also looks up partial names. For example entering on the To: line the partial text of "jo har" will provide results for John Harett, Jon Harmon and Johnathan Har, and match the partial first and last names.
I can also look up names in Evolution by clicking on the XRMS LDAP. Evolution 1.4, it does limit the search to 100 names. If there is a particular name or company that I want to find with Evolution, I could use Evolution's search feature. I know that Evolution has this feature, but I never use it because I generally search for users within XRMS and not Evolution.
LDAP setup and configuration should take you or your system administrator less than 10 hours (probably 6-7 hours) to configure, test and verify the LDAP configuration. The LDAP makes using my email client easier.
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Does anyone has a example for the cronjob? i wonder how it works because you have to be logged in as an administrator to get access to export-companies-ldap.php within the browser.
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All,
I noticed a feature request early 2005, where Brian had said that hopefully Q1 2005 there would be the ability to publish company/contact details to LDAP and then update LDAP when changes have been made in XRMS. Has this been done yet? If so can anyone provide any information.
Many Thanks, Kenny
You can export the information in LDIF format from Administration->Export
Syncronizing changes is not yet supported. The company that was working on it never contributed (or, I suspect, finished) their code.
The simplest thing to do would be to make XRMS the system of record, making LDAP read-only. Then you could batch script the syncronization.
Full two-way syncronization is a much larger effort, so somebody needs to step up to do it.
Regards,
- Brian
Right now I have XRMS using LDAP for user auth,
BUT what are the steps involved to make it an
LDAP source? As discussed here.
you asked:
"what are the steps involved to make [XRMS] an LDAP source?"
There is an LDIF export under Administration. You can run this on a cron job that then pushes it into your LDAP server.
Regards,
- Brian
Brian,
thx. I just started to look at this again,
How do you cron this? how do you run export-companies-ldap.php from the cmd line? do I need some switches?
thx
I've not looked or tried this particular php script, but normally I would run php from the commandline with php -f somephpfile.php so in this case it would be php -f export-companies-ldap.php
Hope that helps.
I do not know the technical details, but I have an LDAP with XRMS. As a user, I use Evolution 1.4 with the Mandriva Corporate Desktop. Within Evolution, I have the XRMS LDAP configured as a directory server.
Then within Evolution-> Tools-> Settings-> Folder Settings-> Autocompletion Folders, I have the XRMS LDAP selected.
When I create an email, Evolution pulls the information from my local directory, and from all of the names in XRMS. It also looks up partial names. For example entering on the To: line the partial text of "jo har" will provide results for John Harett, Jon Harmon and Johnathan Har, and match the partial first and last names.
I can also look up names in Evolution by clicking on the XRMS LDAP. Evolution 1.4, it does limit the search to 100 names. If there is a particular name or company that I want to find with Evolution, I could use Evolution's search feature. I know that Evolution has this feature, but I never use it because I generally search for users within XRMS and not Evolution.
LDAP setup and configuration should take you or your system administrator less than 10 hours (probably 6-7 hours) to configure, test and verify the LDAP configuration. The LDAP makes using my email client easier.
Thanks for the info, thats what I will be aiming for.
-Kenny
Does anyone has a example for the cronjob? i wonder how it works because you have to be logged in as an administrator to get access to export-companies-ldap.php within the browser.
#!/bin/bash
php /path/to/script/export-companies-ldap.php
# whatever command you need to import to your ldap app here
apparently you can't put hash mark (pound sign) characters in this new forum interface
it's a standard shell script. pound band /bin/bash
Back from vacation. Back to work.
And how the shell script can pass thru the line #9
$session_user_id = session_check( 'Admin' );
?