Re: [Evolution] LDAP Contact Name Formating Issue

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

well, there's really no standard rule on what "cn" should contain.. 
It's used in many instances as the full name of the person, but in other
instances it's used as a unique id at that level of the tree.. 
Unfortunately the ldap backend is hardcoded to use that attribute for
"full_name", so there's not much that can be done at the moment.

Chris

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 04:11, Armin Bauer wrote:
> hi,
>
> i dont know the answer to your question... but wouldnt it be correct
> if your ldap server was made up like this:
>
> cn=givenname surname etc
> sn=surname
> gn=givenname
> uid=I0112233
>
> and the dn:
> uid=I0112233,dc=example,dc=org
>
> cn is supposed to be the name of the entity, so i think evolution is
> behaving correctly
>
> Best Regards, Armin Bauer
>
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 22:29, Lawrence Mulligan wrote: 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got Evolution doing proper LDAP looks against our LDAP server
> > except for one problem.  Our LDAP system uses a USER ID as the cn, i.e.
> > cn=I0112233.  So browsing the LDAP contacts under "Other Contacts" or
> > trying to send an email to someone looked up via LDAP results in the
> > name being I0112233 etc.  Here's a sample from the Contact Listings:
> >
> >     I0112233
> >     Name:           I0112233
> >     Email:          johndoe company com
> >     Business:       xxx/xxx-xxxx            //Phone Number
> >     Dept:           IT
> >     Title:          Sys. Admin
> >
> > Now, names are sorted properly, i.e. 'D' names all show up when I click
> > on the letter D on the right side of Evolution so the first name and
> > last information is there.  Browsing the LDAP server with GQ shows me
> > that this is true:
> >     cn=I0112233
> >     sn=Doe
> >     fullName=Doe, John
> >     givenName=John
> >     mail=johndoe company com
> >
> > My question is this:  Is it possible to get Evolution to fill in the
> > Persons name instead of I0112233 in under both "Other Contacts" and when
> > doing a lookup when trying to address an email?  The information there
> > it's just not getting presented properly.
> >
> > Here are my vitals: SuSE 8.2/Evolution 1.4
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
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