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Designing Your Directory Tree
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ou=services
A directory tree organized using these objects might appear as shown below.
Branching in a Hosting Environment
For a hosting environment, create a tree that contains two entries of the object
class
class beneath the root suffix. For example, the ISP
directory as shown below.
Identifying Branch Points
As you decide how to branch your directory tree, you will need to decide what
attributes you will use to identify the branch points. Remember that a DN is a
unique string composed of attribute-data pairs. For example, the DN of an entry
for Barbara Jensen, an employee of
uid=Barbara Jensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
Each attribute-data pair represents a branch point in your directory tree. For
example, the directory tree for the enterprise
as follows:
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and one entry of the
organization (o)
organizationalUnit (ou)
example
Corporation, appears as follows:
example.com
example.com
object
branches their
Corporation appears
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