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Re: LDAP - user addressbooks

To: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
Subject: Re: LDAP - user addressbooks
From: Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:29:07 -0500
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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> I have a LDAP authentication system about ready to put online. I am
> looking at having each user have at least a copy of their addressbook
> (currently Outlook Contacts) in their own personal addressbook on the
> LDAP server.
> I have been googling this and see some promise here. My first question
> is - if each user has a cn/uid in People:BaseDN it would make sense for
> me to have the tree located for each user. Is there any reason to create
> a new tree...AddressBooks:BaseDN? thus stepping out of the People:BaseDN
> tree?

It is handy to seperate things that are searched for different reasons into
different ou's.  That way searches don't have to search more than they have to,
 also can make it easier to write ACLs.  But for something like this it could
go either way.

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