What is an LDAP Distinguished Name?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=17639 Created: Feb 24, 2000 Modified: 2000-02-25 05:06:20.193 Author: Madhusudan Chaganthi (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=1416) Question originally posed by John Zukowski PREMIUM (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7 Distinguished name is a unique name for an entry in the Directory Service. A directory service has entries that are similar to the UNIX file structure. For e.g., in Unix we have /etc /bin /usr/bin /usr/local In a LDAP directory service, we can have the distinguished name: cn=John Zukowski, ou=FAQ Guru, o=JGuru Where: o is Organization ou is the Organizational Unit cn is the Common Name In the same LDAP service we can have the distinguished name: cn=John Zukowski, ou=FAQ Member, o=JGuru Both of these entries relate to same person (John Zukowski), but in different sub-trees (ou). One entry might have different permissions, rights, etc. when compared to the other. So the only way we can distinguish these two e
