Wouldn't a LDAP schema change be better? Adding fields requires an additional line in the schema, and additional lines in whatever is reading or writing that particular record. It would be a good idea to forward the schema and changes to Mitel, as the mobile field is a rather important peice of information these days. Besides, there are many offices with addresses such as:-
Suite X, Floor Y ZZZ Some St, Somewhere, SW, 0000 Regards, Craig Foster > -----Original Message----- > From: John Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2001 2:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] LDAP mods? > > > I have been playing with LDAP. My company has some different needs > for a company directory than SME provides and I am looking to make > some minor mods. <snip> > Why I write though is I am looking to "repurpose" a couple > fields and > want to know if I am going to seriously break anything in SME. I > guess I could do this right and add the fields to the db, > web screens, > etc., but that would be a fairly significant amount of > tinkering that > I would like to avoid. What I am looking to do is use the "street" > field for mobile phone, and the "city" field for pager, those seem > like 2 safe fields to tinker with. I could just do this and do the > conversion in my scripts mentioned above (actually, already > have), but > would also like to properly list the fields on the LDAP > server (under > the correct attributes). > > I found where the LDIF file is created to populate the LDAP > server in > /etc/e-smith/events/console-save/S80ldap-rebuild . I could make 2 > really minor hacks here, changing the (street address) "street:" to > "mobile:" and (city) "l:" to "pager:" in the part where it > writes the > LDIF. That creates a properly mapped LDAP server with my hacked > fields. I can handle the wrong labels on the user accounts page in > SME server manager (I am the only one that sees them anyway). > > Bottom line, do these seem like "safe" fields to repurpose > (am I going > to break any SME dependancy if I do this)? Any thoughts, stern > warnings, abuse, etc. appreciated. > > Thanks, > > JP
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