Ticket #774 (closed enhancement: fixed)
alpine should be aware of the MIT LDAP server
| Reported by: | achernya | Owned by: | achernya |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | Natty Alpha |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
alpine should be configured to use the MIT LDAP servers for addressbook/name lookups by Debathena.
Specifically, the line
ldap-servers=
needs to become
ldap-servers=ldap.mit.edu:389 "/base=dc=mit,dc=edu"
Change History
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by quentin
How does this differ from the default behavior of looking up names in Hesiod? In fact, I think I prefer Hesiod names to LDAP names.
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by geofft
LDAP should let you browse for e-mail addresses based on name, i.e., actual address book functionality. Hesiod only lets you look up a name (passwd entry) from a username.
(I haven't actually tested this yet, though)
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by geofft
- Status changed from committed to development
Yeah, LDAP only affects the address book, not name lookup.
Technically, Alpine doesn't know anything about Hesiod for name lookup (which makes sense, we threw away all the Hesiod patches quite a while ago). It's looking up your names from NSS, which is often but not always configured to backend to Hesiod. And it continues to do so -- if I search for myself in LDAP and compose a mail, it goes to "Geoffrey G Thomas", but if I just start a blank composer, it continues to go to "Geoffrey Thomas".
Anyway, uploaded.
Fixed in r24924