Evolution and LDAP

  • November, 21 2006
  • triplem
  • Linux

First you have to install openldap (which is also required for egroupware, but more on this, later on). After this, you need to modify the configurationfile /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There you have to add the entry

\# Indexing options for database #1
index objectClass eq
rootdn "cn=admin,dc=javafreedom,dc=org"
rootpw secret

This will give the user admin with the password secret write access to the LDAP Directory. Please note, that I changed the domain to my current domain (javafreedom.org). With this user, you can later add entries to the Directory. I would also like to establish different users with different rights, but this I have to investigate.

Furthermore I added the schema evolutionperson.schema to the slapd, so that I can use nearly all fields of the Evolution contacts. In Ubuntu, you can find this file in the directory /usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.8. So add this with the following entry into the configuration:

include /etc/ldap/schema/evolutionperson.schema

Now I can use nearly all fields in evolution, only the Instant Messaging Attributes are missing, but I am trying to add these on my own.

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