Creating Suffixes; Figure 3-1 A Sample Directory Tree With One Root Suffix - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
Figure 3-1
The
ou=people
one database, the
ou=contractors
This section describes creating suffixes on your Directory Server and associating
them with databases. This section contains procedures for the following:
•

Creating Suffixes

• Maintaining Suffixes
Creating Suffixes
You can create both root and subsuffixes to organize the contents of your
directory tree. A root suffix is the parent of a sub suffix. It can be part of a larger
tree you have designed for your Directory Server. A sub suffix is a branch
underneath a root suffix. The data for root and subsuffixes are contained by
databases.
Your directory might contain more than one root suffix. For example, an ISP
might host several websites, one for
ISP would create two root suffixes, one corresponding to the
naming context and one corresponding to the
context. The directory tree appears as illustrated in Figure 3-2.
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A Sample Directory Tree with One Root Suffix
suffix and all the entries and nodes below it might be stored in
suffix on another database, and the
ou=groups
suffix on yet another database.
and one for
example.com
dc=redhat,dc=com
. The
redhat.com
dc=example,dc=com
naming