Re: Address Book generation of dn field.

Mark Banner a écrit :
> Sorry for not getting back to this thread earlier.
> 
> Honza T_ wrote:
>> I think there is only RFC1779 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1779.html
>> And no standard for choosing attributes in DNs.
> 
> Well, that RFC is a useful basis.
> 
>> It depends on what do you want to do with DNs ?
> 
> With the LDAP parts of the Address Books in SeaMonkey and Thunderbird I
> have been looking at the various decisions that need to be made to get
> writing to ldap servers working. As part of this, for new cards, we need
> to be able to set up the DN with something reasonable. We can use the
> baseDN to form the basis of the DN, but we'd need something for the rest
> of it. So as you suggest, maybe the best solution is to make it
> configurable behind the scenes (or advanced) and allow the user to
> select a subset of fields, e.g. cn and email or location.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the input so far.
> 
> Standard8

As stated by others, there is no standard DIT for users in enterprise
directories, the best way is to make it flexible. I would suggest using
the same way as Sun Identity Manager : an identity template or rule.
We would have :
- simple configuration : choose rdn attribute and suffix (two fields)
- template based : uid=$uid,ou=$orgunit,dc=company,dc=com
- "rule" based : maybe a javascript function ?

Just my two cents :-)