Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 20

Introduction to Directory Server
The root of the tree is called the root suffix. For information about naming the root
suffix, refer to "Choosing a Suffix," on page 62.
At installation, the directory contains up to four subtrees under your root suffix:
•
cn=config
This subtree contains information about the server's internal configuration.
•
o=NetscapeRoot
This subtree contains the configuration information of other servers, such as
Administration Server. The Administration Server takes care of
authentication and all actions that cannot be performed through LDAP (such
as starting or stopping).
•
o=userRoot
During installation, a user database is created by default. Its default name is
o=userRoot
later.
NOTE
You can build on the default directory tree to add any data relevant to your
directory installation. An example of a directory tree for
Corporation follows:
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. You can choose to populate it at installation time, or populate
When you install another instance of Directory Server, you can
specify that it does not contain the
that it uses the configuration directory (or the
subtree) present on another server. See the Red Hat Directory Server
Installation Guide for more information about deciding upon the
location of your configuration directory.
information,
o=NetscapeRoot
o=NetscapeRoot
example.com