Spring 5.0 Projects

The LDAP structure

Proceeding further, we will look at the DN and RDN concept in DIT. We are targeting our DIT as per the third option that you saw in the Example DIT structures section. Let's recall that the RDN uniquely distinguishes the entry among its siblings. That means it is a key that makes the entry unique underneath the parent entry. We can use any attribute to declare the RDN. Additionally, at each level, the attribute used as an RDN can differ.

In our case, the RDN of the base is o=packtPublisher (which is the partition suffix). We have used the attribute o, which is the organization name. Just beneath it, there are two children, for which the ou attribute has been used as the RDN. The attribute ou stands for an organizational ...