Re: Outlook LDAP Addressbook Browsing - Add ORDERING caseIgnoreOrderingMatch on CN or NAME core attributes without source code modification and re-compilition

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Richard LEGER wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com
> <mailto:quanah@zimbra.com>> wrote:
>
>     --On Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:58 PM +0100 Richard LEGER
>     <richard.leger@gmail.com <mailto:richard.leger@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Is there other way(s) via a local schema or else to modify/extend
>         definition of OpenLDAP core attributes without modifying source
>         code and
>         recompiling?
>
>
>     No.  You shouldn't be using the garbage OpenLDAP build shipped with
>     Ubuntu anyway.
>
>     --Quanah
>
>
> For information to those that may interested (and for the record)...
>
> Here is a simple description of the openldap <-> Outlook ldap
> addressbook issue:
> Source: http://victor-sudakov.livejournal.com/124269.html
> Translation:
> http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://victor-sudakov.livejournal.com/124269.html&prev=search
>
> In addition, for the address list organization to be displayed in
> Outlook, it seems necessary to patch the file
> /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema in order to add 'company' attribute as
> alias to 'o', something like:
>
> attributetype ( 2.5.4.10 NAME ( 'company' 'o' 'organizationName' ) DESC
> 'RFC2256: organization this object belongs to' SUP name )

Nonsense. This is why we have the rewrite module and attribute mapping 
functions.

Modifying IETF published schema is prohibited.

> Just thought that may be helpful to know and record on the forum...

No. Breaking the server is not the way to adapt schema for broken clients.

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