Customizing The Openldap Schema; Ldap Dit Design And Ldif File; Ldap Data Structure - Tripp Lite B030-008-17-IP Owner's Manual

12. Network Settings

12.3.3 Customizing the OpenLDAP Schema

The schema that slapd uses may be extended to support additional syntaxes, matching rules, attribute types, and object classes. In the case
of the B030-008-17-IP , the User class and the permission attribute are extended to define a new schema. The extended schema file used to
authenticate and authorize users logging in to the KVM Switch is shown in the figure below:

12.4 LDAP DIT Design and LDIF File

12.4.1 LDAP Data Structure

An LDAP Directory stores information in a tree structure known as the Directory Information Tree (DIT). The nodes in the tree are directory
entries and each entry contains information in attribute-value form. An example of the LDAP directory tree for the B030-008-17-IP is shown in
the figure below:
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