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Re: Address Book schema

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: Address Book schema
From: "Anthony E . Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:17:37 -0500
In-reply-to: <NEBBKKLOJKBMBMHCBDEPIEPCCBAA.scollins@apexvoice.com>; from scollins@apexvoice.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:46:19 -0500
References: <B6A6B9E8.48A9%dyoung@NetToNetTech.com> <NEBBKKLOJKBMBMHCBDEPIEPCCBAA.scollins@apexvoice.com>

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:46:19 Steve Collins wrote:
>I've been considering implementing "personal address book"
>functionality in LDAP....
>
>Thus, each user's address book entries would be stored within the
>user's LDAP entry.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. Philosophical: Is this a gross violation of standard LDAP
>practices??? (I'm sure some would say so)

Yes. LDAP "fields" are called attributes because they are supposed to be dta
items about a specific object.

>2. Practical: Is there an implementation out there I can/should
>reuse or use as a model???

This sounds like a job for SQL. Or you could store all entries in LDAP, note
the "owner" of each one, and set read/write access accordingly.

Tony
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References:
- Re: which schema/objectclass I need to use?
  - From: David Young <dyoung@NetToNetTech.com>
- Address Book schema
  - From: "Steve Collins" <scollins@apexvoice.com>

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