[Evolution] Re: No LDAP Password Prompt

[Yavor Doganov <yavor doganov org>]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:58:27 -0400, Darren Oh wrote:

> I am using Debian Sarge and Evolution 2.0.4. I have set up my own  
> LDAP service, and it works fine with everything except Evolution. An  
> attempt to open an LDAP address book in Evolution results in an error  
> message roughly like this: "Unable to open address book. The URL may  
> be incorrect or the host may be unreachable." Evolution does not even  
> attempt to prompt for a password. I looked at the slapd debug output,  
> and it appears that Evolution is attempting to use an unsupported  
> certificate-based authentication. Can Evolution be set up to use a  
> simple password login, or am I stuck with setting up a more complex  
> LDAP configuration? I'm new to LDAP, so I need simple but thorough  
> guidance. Any help is appreciated.

The simplest authentication is "Use SSL: Never" and "Authentication
method: Anonymous" in your LDAP folder's preferences. Also make sure that
the LDAP server grants read access to the client (which is the default).
You might want to add to your /etc/ldap/slapd.conf Evo's schema:

include /usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.0/evolutionperson.schema

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