[turba] Contact in this list that is not viewable to you - related.

[ANANT S ATHAVALE]

----- Message from jan at horde.org ---------
     Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:20:33 +0200
     From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Subject: Re: [turba] Contact in this list that is not viewable to  
you - related.
       To: turba at lists.horde.org


> Zitat von ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>
>> ----- Message from jan at horde.org ---------
>>    Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:21:24 +0200
>>    From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
>> Subject: Re: [turba] Contact in this list that is not viewable to   
>> you - related.
>>      To: turba at lists.horde.org
>>
>>
>>> Zitat von ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>>>
>>>> ----- Message from jan at horde.org ---------
>>>>  Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:37:46 +0200
>>>>  From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [turba] Contact in this list that is not viewable to  
>>>>  you - related.
>>>>    To: turba at lists.horde.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear List,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My users were complaining of the problem as mentioned in the subject.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have set up a global address book with LDAP.  I was advising  
>>>>>>  users to create contact lists of their own by searching for   
>>>>>> persons from LDAP address book and adding to their contact  
>>>>>> lists.   And most of the users are using this feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now, users started complaining that for many lists which they   
>>>>>> created, they get the message "There is/are xx contact in this   
>>>>>> list that is not viewable to you".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now, I tried to debug the problem and now I know the problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whenever a user searches from LDAP address book and adds the   
>>>>>> person to his contact list, the address book "turba_objects"   
>>>>>> instead of adding just the name and email id of the searched   
>>>>>> person, also stores the LDAP hierarchy "ou, ou", etc of that   
>>>>>> person.  Everything is OK till the hierarchy of that person   
>>>>>> remains the same.  If the person's  hierarchy in LDAP gets   
>>>>>> changed,   the users are getting the above error/warning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to come out of this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> If the users are the owners of the list, any contacts of this  
>>>>> list  that can't be found anymore are deleted automatically.
>>>>
>>>> Users are owners of the list.  The contacts remain in LDAP, but  
>>>> not  at the same hierarchy.  Ie. The hierarchy which existed at  
>>>> the time  of creation of contact list is now different.
>>>
>>> This doesn't make a difference for the code. The contact can't be   
>>> found anymore, so it's being removed.
>>>
>>>>> If the user does not have write permissions on the list, they  
>>>>> will  get this error message, until the list was opened by the  
>>>>> admin.
>>>>
>>>> User has write permission on the list.
>>>>
>>>> Is it required that, when storing a contact after a search from   
>>>> LDAP directory, to also to store the LDAP hierarchy?  Can it not  
>>>> be  done without storing hierarchy?  In our organisational setup,  
>>>> we  have frequent changes in Hierarchy of a person which get  
>>>> reflected  in LDAP.
>>>
>>> Completely depends on how you set up Turba. But with the default   
>>> LDAP setup, you use the DN for the contact key, which contains the  
>>>  full hierarchy.
>>
>> OK.  We were using the DN for the contact key, which is the default  
>>  one.  Now, I have in my setup of LDAP, attribute named   
>> 'mailacceptinggeneralid' gives the unique output.  I am attaching  
>> the  current ldap related entries in sources.php.  I tried changing  
>> __key  alone to 'mailacceptinggeneralid'. With this change,  
>> contacts are not  getting shown in contact list, though it says it  
>> added.
>>
>> Any more changes required?
>
> No, that's sufficient. Of course it would only work with new lists.

I tried again.  Changing __key alone to 'mailacceptinggeneralid', and  
creating new contact list with contacts, it says added. But does not  
show up when I try to see the members of a list.

Another problem is, after changing the __key, the old lists created do  
not show up the contacts.  I am ready to accept this.  But, at least  
new lists I should be able to create with 'mailacceptinggeneralid' as  
the attribute of LDAP assigned to __key.

Any more pointers?

Regards,
ANANT.


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Regards,

Anant Athavale.