How to write to Zimbra LDAP?

[NordicEdge]

Hi, i'm about to provisioning users from Active Directory (loads of users) to a Zimbra server v6.x running on linux.

I can connect on port 389 but cannot find out how to authenticate so I actually can WRITE to Zimbra LDAP. I can su to zimbra from root and access all zm* commands. But how to auth via LDAP with zimbra or similiar?

Ideas?

Regards,

[phoenix]

I can connect on port 389 but cannot find out how to authenticate so I actually can WRITE to Zimbra LDAP.

The simple answer is, you don't do that (you may break Zimbra) you use zmprov to provision users. Search the forums, I believe there's a script to provision users from AD.

[Krishopper]

Bill is absolutely right. Do NOT write to Zimbra's LDAP server directly. There are other things that Zimbra does on the backend to add users.

There is also a feature request in bugzilla for automatic provisioning, so this should hopefully be solved in version 8.0. No promises though.

[NordicEdge]

Bill is absolutely right. Do NOT write to Zimbra's LDAP server directly. There are other things that Zimbra does on the backend to add users.

There is also a feature request in bugzilla for automatic provisioning, so this should hopefully be solved in version 8.0. No promises though.

To bad they really RAPE ldap then. I love LDAP and when products using it - BUT customers cant use the buildin LDAP - it sucks!

Guess I have to write a zmprov script and copy it so zimbra can access it.

Thx guys,

[metux]

To bad they really RAPE ldap then. I love LDAP and when products using it - BUT customers cant use the buildin LDAP - it sucks!

Zimbra's LDAP is meant as an internal database, you shouldnt write to it.

That's one of the reasons why we're currently building an meta-directory from which
all applications in our cloud stack are controlled.