Re: [Fedora-directory-users] I'm feeling like I'm drowning!

2006-07-21 Thread Jeff Clowser
Ben Steeves wrote: On 7/21/06, Per Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had hoped to let the people at HR do the data entry on the "soft" information , while the operations people do the "hard" information. If people are going to need access to just a few attributes, or you need to apply

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] mass delete : size limit problem

2006-04-12 Thread Jeff Clowser
David Boreham wrote: Mikael Kermorgant wrote: Hello, I'd like to run a script that deletes everything from ou=People (~ 5000 users). The problem is that I first run a search and the result size is limited by the server. Increasing thiis limit would surely work but I don't find it very el

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Disabling vlv support

2006-02-27 Thread Jeff Clowser
Mike Jackson wrote: Richard Megginson wrote: Views and VLV (Virtual List Views) are different. Views allows you to impose a hierarchical DIT upon a flat tree (virtually). VLV is paged search results. Right. So, do you Rich have any tips how to disable VLV? Although I still don't se

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Username Case Sensitivity

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff Clowser
Scott Boggs wrote: Del babel.com.au> writes: Scott Boggs wrote: I am curious; I understand that LDAP does not enforce case sensitivity for user names or passwords. However, I am wondering if there is a method to enforce such a policy on fedora-ds? I noticed the behavior earlier this

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] ACI

2005-12-04 Thread Jeff Clowser
Craig White wrote: I have personal address books...each user would have one - i.e. ou=AddressBook,uid=craig,ou=People,dc=azapple,dc=com ou=AddressBook,uid=jennifer,ou=People,dc=azapple,dc=com and my thinking is that each person can read/write/delete/etc. their own address book, authenticated u

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Calendar server

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Clowser
John Dennis wrote: We are also keenly interested in a calendar server but I'll confess I'm confused as to the relationship you envision between FDS and calendar server based on caldav, could you explain? Well, I originally said it was somewhat off topic, and I think I'm going even further of

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Calendar server

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Clowser
Mike Jackson wrote: I searched all over their site trying to find the source code, but no cigar. Binary downloads were downloadable for free. I imagine this was just the announcement, and the release will come sometime later. Between FDS (which seems to be improving more steadily than Sun'

[Fedora-directory-users] Calendar server

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Clowser
I know this is somewhat off topic, though it has come up a couple times since Red Hat bought the whole suite from Netscape... http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051130.1.html Looks like Sun is open sourcing JES (which includes the mail and calendar server as well as the d

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How can I create a User ID alias?

2005-11-08 Thread Jeff Clowser
Darren Fulton wrote: Hello, The web calendar is "Web Calendar" ( http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php ) and I'm currently authenticating using http basic auth, over SSL using mod_ldap in Apache. User authenticates as jjones and if there is a webcal user by the name of jjones, it pulls up his cale

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How can I create a User ID alias?

2005-11-07 Thread Jeff Clowser
Richard Megginson wrote: Darren Fulton wrote: I have an in production application at our office (Web Calendar) that I am migrating to LDAP authentication using FDS from application internal authentication. Some of the users in the old program have user id's of $firstname and they don't work be

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How is access control done?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff Clowser
Yeah - I think console caches some of this stuff. You don't have to restart ldap or admin server, just console. - Jeff Rich Megginson wrote: Hm - sounds like a bug. You may have to restart the console in order for it to pick up your new schema. speedy zinc wrote: --- Rich Megginson <[EM

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How is access control done?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff Clowser
speedy zinc wrote: Let's say, my apps have some specific needs for data, which is not covered by existing standard schema. So, I create extended schema. Let's say I have 3 apps right now, and I can't forsee what future apps will need in terms of schema definition. And let's say I've been using

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How is access control done?

2005-10-18 Thread Jeff Clowser
You can look at this from 2 perspectives. One is LDAP access control, and the other is application level access control stored in LDAP. Access control within LDAP is simply setting up ACI's that restrict access to LDAP data based on certain rules. Note that LDAP access control is implementat

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] strange problem with group of more than 2000 users

2005-10-14 Thread Jeff Clowser
er="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(cn=toto))" attrs="cn gidNumber userPassword memberUid" [12/Oct/2005:12:46:24 +0200] conn=1 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 etime=0 [12/Oct/2005:12:46:24 +0200] conn=1 op=2 UNBIND [12/Oct/2005:12:46:24 +0200] conn=1 op=2 fd=64 closed -

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] strange problem with group of more than 2000 users

2005-10-03 Thread Jeff Clowser
of users i can have basile Jeff Clowser wrote: It could be a limit on the sizes of groups, etc in Solaris. To check to see if it's LDAP related, look at the ldap access logs for queries related to that group or coming from that machine. Anyway, 2000 I believe is the default sizelimit fo

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] strange problem with group of more than 2000 users

2005-10-03 Thread Jeff Clowser
It could be a limit on the sizes of groups, etc in Solaris. To check to see if it's LDAP related, look at the ldap access logs for queries related to that group or coming from that machine. Anyway, 2000 I believe is the default sizelimit for searches, so look for entries with 2000 results, if

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to migrate a server instance of NS directory 4.1 to FC ns directory 7.1?

2005-09-29 Thread Jeff Clowser
Comments inline below Jet Young wrote: Now I want to create a new server in Fedora Directory 7.1 with these data. But I found some problems. 1.In NS directory 4.1, I only need to copy those files to the relative directory and everything will be ok. But now, I can't find any files named "sldap

[Fedora-directory-users] DNS backended in LDAP

2005-08-26 Thread Jeff Clowser
I'm looking at options for back-ending DNS data in LDAP/FDS. Looking for free/open source options, and what I've found so far are: ldapdns dns server integrated against ldap http://www.nimh.org/code/ldapdns/ (version 2) http://ldapdns.sourceforge.net/ (version 3) Sounds good, but I'm not sure i

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Wishlist

2005-08-26 Thread Jeff Clowser
Rich Megginson wrote: Jeff Clowser wrote: suppose that might be more clearly stated in the X.501 spec?). Sounds like I am stepping into an LDAP/X.50x holy war :) I'm sure the folks on the ldap umich list will be happy to provide their interpretations :-) Heh :) I propose the cre

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Wishlist

2005-08-26 Thread Jeff Clowser
Steven Bonneville wrote: Well, sort of. What X.501 says and the LDAP RFCs follow is that an entry is characterized by exactly one *chain* of structural object classes that has exactly one structural object class as the most subordinate object class in the chain... ...Now, we can't add accou

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Wishlist

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff Clowser
Sorry to dredge up a really old thread, but I've been trying to track down something about it that's been bothering me. Basically, part of the thread devolved to the idea of creating a single user entry that has objectclasses: inetorgperson, account, posixaccount, shadowaccount, etc. If I un

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] What next?

2005-08-03 Thread Jeff Clowser
Chris Curran wrote: I have a LDAP server setup in my Tbird Address Book. To test the connection, in Tbird addr book I choose the 'Offline' tab then 'Download Now'. It asks me for a username and password - I enter them and at that point I'm back where I began in Tbird. I check the log files in

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Manager login on port 389?

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Clowser
Are you sure you are not using cn=directory manager when you do ssl, and cn=manager when you are doing non-ssl? Maybe you just typed the wrong thing in one app? - Jeff Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote: Hi, I'm trying to bind to FDS as "cn=Manager, ..." and looks like it does not work u

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] What next?

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Clowser
It all depends on your client apps. Client apps, in this case, are pretty much anything that talks to the directory server (i.e. thunderbird, a mail server that uses ldap for user info, etc.). In the case of using thunderbird as an addressbook client: 1. click on the addressbook button. 2. u

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Specifying an all-inclusive User directory subtree?

2005-07-29 Thread Jeff Clowser
Kevin Myer wrote: Quoting Jeff Clowser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There is really no need to use the dc=k12,dc=pa,dc=us style tree - in fact, in most cases I've set up, that was actually a bad choice. Sun uses o=internet as a base under which to put a full dc tree (in their 5.

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Specifying an all-inclusive User directory subtree?

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Clowser
I would create a suffix with something like "o=isp", then create "o=k12.pa.us", "o=abc.org", "o=", etc under that. Create ou=people, ou=groups, etc under each, and set up admin groups, aci's, etc to allow each to be managed separately, allow appropriate views by users, etc. Search o=isp as y

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Virtual DIT views vs hierarchical DIT

2005-06-24 Thread Jeff Clowser
Sam Tran wrote: We have about 1,300 employees grouped by departments (Finance, HR, IT, ...) and some contractors and volunteers. Since we have the opportunity to redesign the DIT in a few months I have been thinking on improving the DIT structure. Most of the applications that use our Director

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Virtual DIT views vs hierarchical DIT

2005-06-24 Thread Jeff Clowser
Pete Rowley wrote: Which sounds like a nice enhancement, redirect non-view entry creation to some other part of the dit :) I think it is only the creation case that really matters - clients that just do modify ops are much more likely to use the dn of the returned entry than to try to construc

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Virtual DIT views vs hierarchical DIT

2005-06-24 Thread Jeff Clowser
Sam Tran wrote: Jeff, Pete, So you would definitely go with hierarchical DIT and not flat DIT with views? Thanks for you comments. Personally, yes, that is my preference. But... sometimes the apps you deploy will overrule that. For those apps, views may be the solution (personally, I've

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Virtual DIT views vs hierarchical DIT

2005-06-24 Thread Jeff Clowser
Pete Rowley wrote: A) they currently have no internet draft or RFC, and to my knowledge no other server impliments them - only you can tell if this matters Yep - if you are looking for portability, stay away from this. D) Entry DN's are not disguised, that is views does not try to make the

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] PAM problem - ldap_search_s No such object

2005-06-24 Thread Jeff Clowser
Look in the access log on the FDS server for connections from that workstation (grep on the IP of that workstations, or one of the user id's that are trying to auth, etc). When you find it, grep out conn=xxx (where xxx is the connection # from that IP) so you get the complete connection from s

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] features

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Clowser
Mike Jackson wrote: Good point. OpenLDAP does support ACIs, but it is listed as experimental, and you have to explicitly enable it at configure time. Still, I don't know if the ACI syntax and evaluation algorithms in OL and FDS are similar or not. Nope - openldap's experimental aci's are co

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] features

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Clowser
Note that there are a lot of issues with replicating data between dissimilar ldap implementations, and always will be until things like access control is standardized. Even if I could replicate my data to openldap, it would not honor the fds aci's, which would result in unexpected/unwanted res

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] change port on DS/AS

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Clowser
Mike Jackson wrote: There are similar issues with changing the IP address. Note that this is an issue with admin server, not directory server itself (i.e. changing the port and ip address on directory server works without problem, but "breaks" admin and such). I wonder what breaks if you

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] change port on DS/AS

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Clowser
Think of it this way (doing this from memory): - Config info for _other servers_ (such as admin) is held in the directory under o=netscaperoot. DS itself does not "use" any of this. It's important to understand that directory and admin are 2 separate servers. - There is one file (adm.conf?

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Configuration Directory

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Clowser
George Holbert wrote: The installer for Fedora DS asks about which directory server should be the "Configuration Directory Server." My understanding is that this configuration directory server stores information about the Fedora/Netscape console (e.g., which servers show up in the console sc

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] schema extension via ldif at install time

2005-06-20 Thread Jeff Clowser
Brian K. Jones wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 2:03 pm, Mike Jackson wrote: Don't put schema into 99user.ldif, it's not maintainable. This would seem to be contrary to the documentation on redhat's site. I'm certainly not meaning to say you're wrong - quite the contrary - I'm pointing