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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
