Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 - Manual (Page 80)

7-4 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers System Management Guide • December 2005
FIGURE 7-1 LDAP Directory Structure
Each entry is uniquely identified by a distinguished name (dn). A distinguished
name consists of a name that uniquely identifies the entry at that hierarchical level
and a path that traces the entry back to the root of the tree.
For example, the distinguished name for jsmith is:
dn: uid=jsmith, ou=people, dc=sun.com
Here, uid represents the user ID of the entry, ou represents the organizational unit
in which the entry belongs, and dc represents the larger organization in which the
entry belongs. The following diagram shows how distinguished names are used to
identify entries uniquely in the directory hierarchy.