Personal Address Book

LDAP entries created by inetOrgPerson can be enabled for personal address books by overlaying the entry with object classes pab, pabGroup, and pabPerson. The data model for personal address book entries is the address book, pab, which contains zero or more persons (pabPerson) and zero or more group, pabGroup, entries.

Personal Address Book

The personal address book, pab object class, contains zero or more pabPerson and zero or more pabGroup entries. All users and groups belong to the default personal address book called All.

Personal Address Book Group

The personal address book group object class, pabGroup, corresponds to a personal distribution list. A group belongs to zero or more personal address books. The link between groups and personal address books is established by memberOfPAB, a multi-valued attribute of pabGroup.

Personal Address Book Person

The personal address book user object class, pabPerson, is a user entry in a personal address book. A user, pabPerson, can belong to zero or more personal address book groups, pabGroup, and zero or more personal address books, pab.

The link between users and groups is established by memberOfPABGroup, a multi-valued attribute of pabPerson, which allows the user to belong to many groups. A user can also belong to many personal address books. This link is established by memberOfPAB, a multi-valued attribute of pabPerson.