[OGo-Users] New user needs information

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Users are authenticated against the LDAP directory.  A user account is 
> > created in the PostgreSQL database as (a) there e some OGo specific 
> > elements that need o be associated with the account and (b) you don't 
> > want the user's entry to go away when the LDAP account is deleted as 
> > you'd loose historic information such as what tasks they performed, 
> > meetings they attended, etc...
> Makes sense.  I have configured my server to auth via ldap, and that 
> seems to work fine.
> My next question is how to automatically set up the user account so that 
> he does not need to enter his email address and servername for imap 
> connection.  Are there defaults I can set for this?
> Also, I try to keep root account very limited to the administration of 
> the server itself.  Can I change the username of the OGO administrator 
> from 'root' to 'Administrator', so I don't have to put a 'root' entry 
> into my ldap database?

Yes, see http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/ 
It has a chapter on authentication that covers renaming the OGo admin
account.

> >> I already have contacts stored in the ldap database (global address
> >> book, and personal address books).  Can OGO use these as address book
> >> sources?
> > Not currently.  
> > http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1621
> > But the advantages of having the contacts in groupware is overwhelming 
> > (they can be associated with projects, etc...)  Usually the reverse of 
> > this is what you want;  exposing OGo information via LDAP (using 
> > OpenLDAP's back-sql or Penrose).
> I will look into this - the final goal is to share the contact 
> information with the 'fat' clients (outlook/evolution/etc), so the 
> mechanism does not matter as long as it works.

I think InstantOGo provides this out of the box;  with 'standard'
OpenGroupware you have to build it yourself.  But it isn't that hard.

> However, I do need to be able to *edit* the contacts via evo and 
> outlook.  I assume the zidelook plugin allows outlook to edit contacts, 
> but what would I use for evolution?

Yes you can edit contacts via ZideLook (the Outlook plugin).  For Evo I
believe they are currently adding that to the GroupDAV connector.

> >> Would I use evolution to connect to this webcal:// or http://  URL, or
> >> is there a specific evolution zidestore connector?
> > There is an evolution [GroupDAV] connector for 2.8.  The problem with 
> > webcal:// is that 'traditional' iCalendar is a really crappy groupware 
> > solution,  it treats calendars as objects rather then events as 
> > objects.  This causes no end of problems.
> I have evo 2.8 installed - what URL should I use to connect to the 
> webdav/groupdav calendar?
> Is this read/write?

For the schedular I believe yes.  You should as Evolution/GroupDAV
specific questions over on the GroupDAV list.
http://www.groupdav.org/mailinglist.html
GroupDAV is the "standard" for groupware interoperability and is
supported by OGo's ZideStore, as well as several other servers (Citadel,
etc...)  The connector for Evo is a GroupDAV connector and not
specifically OGo.