Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 Installation Manual page 93

Glossary
Transport Layer Security
See TLS.
U
uid
A unique number associated with each user on a UNIX system.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. The addressing system used by the server and the
client to request documents. It is often called a location. The format of a URL is
protocol://machine:port/document. The port number is necessary only on selected
servers, and it is often assigned by the server, freeing the user of having to place it in the URL.
V
virtual list view index
Also browsing index. Speeds up the display of entries in the Directory Server Console. Virtual
list view indexes can be created on any branchpoint in the directory tree to improve display
performance.
X
X.500 standard
The set of ISO/ITU-T documents outlining the recommended information model, object classes
and attributes used by directory server implementation.
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