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illyfrancis edited this page Dec 4, 2013 · 7 revisions

Concepts

Directories

LDAP refers to entries with Distinguished Names (DNs). DNs consist of the name of the entry itself as well as the names, in order from bottom to top, of the objects above it in the directory.

LDAP directory structure

                ("root")
     o=ibm, c=us /    \
---------------------------------------------------------------    
               /        \                   objectClass=country
          (c = US)    (c = UK)
            /\    \
---------------------------------------------------------------    
          /    \      \                objectClass=organization
         /      \        \               
   (o = IBM) (o= Lotus) (o = Tivoli)
       /
---------------------------------------------------------------    
     /                                       objectClass=person
(cn = Tim Jones)                            
       mail=tjones@ibm.com
       telephoneNumber=555-555-1234

DN - Distinguished Names

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