[turba] Phantom Contacts from LDAP Address Book

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I basically have Turba working with Horde 2.2.1 for two LDAP-based
>address books.  However, I have one problem and one question.
>1) When I list the entries in each of the LDAP address books, there
>appears to be a phantom entry in each list that doesn't exist in LDAP.
> The Name column simply says [Edit] and the remaining columns are
>blank.  If I click on [Edit], a blank form is displayed.  Of course,
>if I try to Edit or Delete the phantom entry, I get an LDAP error
>because it doesn't really exist.
>I would appreciate some insight as to why this is happening.  It does
>not happen with my Private Address Book.

It probably isn't really a non-existant object, but an object (possible the ou
object) that doesn't have any of the attributes you defined for Turba.

>2) The objectClass I use for one of my LDAP address books is
>inetOrgPerson.  However, I had to tweak the LDAP driver to make sure
>that the required sn attribute is set when a new contact is added.
>What's the recommended way of configuring Turba and LDAP to avoid LDAP
>errors for required attributes.  While modifying the driver took care
>of the problem, I'd rather not have to do this.

I've not discovered any way to specificy the requiredness of an attribute.