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Creating roles in the LDAP server

As you saw in the previous section, we have created the users entity (ou=users) under the root entity (o=packtPublisher), and have kept all users under that entity in the LDAP server. Similarly, to store authorization information, we will create a new entity directly under the root entity in Apache DS, with the following steps:

1. Right-click on the partition o=packtPublisher and select New | New Entry from the LDAP Browser window.
2. Choose the option Create entry from scratch and click on the Next button.
3. We are going to add an entity type organization unit, so choose the organizationalUnit object class and click on the Next button.
4. We will use ou (organizational unit) as the RDN and roles as its value. The ...