[adding .directory to the newsgroups line] Geoffrey Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You make an interesting point... > > However, I think you also miss the point of how current LDAP > implementations work... > > At the moment the LDAP Address book functionality is to do discrete > queries against an existing LDAP server, and return a list of results. > > If you did an authenticated bind, I suppose adding the ability to > delete or add entries to that LDAP server is not hard. Well, we support for write operations still needs to be added to the LDAP XPCOM SDK; it's not there yet. But you're right that it shouldn't be too difficult. > However, realize that a returned value from that kind of search is > usually a user object, and to remove it from the list, means to delete > the object. > > What it sounds to me that you want, is something different. You want > Roaming access stored in LDAP. I.e. Some attribute added to a user > object that has values which are the contents of the users address > book. Thus an LDAP query for THIER addressbook, returns the values. > > This is NOT what is implemented currently. There is an open Bugzilla > bug on adding Roaming Access back into the code, but that is not the > same thing either.... Rather that is for all preferences, and is to be > similar in functionality as to what was in NS4.xx I believe this summary is correct. There are bugs in bugzilla filed about implementing roaming, and there was some general architecture discussion about it in the .prefs newsgroup a month or two back. Dan
