Ldap Terminology; Openldap Daemons And Utilities - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 Reference Manual

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LDIFv1 Support — Provides full compliance with the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
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version 1.
Enhanced Stand-Alone LDAP Server — Includes an updated access control system, thread pooling,
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better tools, and much more.

13.2. LDAP Terminology

Any discussion of LDAP requires a basic understanding of a set of LDAP-specific terms:
entry — A single unit within an LDAP directory. Each entry is identified by its unique Distinguished
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Name (DN).
attributes — Information directly associated with an entry. For example, an organization could be
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represented as an LDAP entry. Attributes associated with the organization might be its fax number,
its address, and so on. People can also be represented as entries in the LDAP directory. Common
attributes for people include the person's telephone number and email address.
Some attributes are required, while other attributes are optional. An objectclass definition sets
which attributes are required and which are not for each entry. Objectclass definitions are found
in various schema files, located in the
on LDAP schema, refer to Section 13.5 The
LDIF — The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is an ASCII text representation of LDAP
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entries. Files used for importing data to LDAP servers must be in LDIF format. An LDIF entry
looks similar to the following example:
[ id ]
dn: distinguished name
attrtype :
attrtype :
attrtype :
Each entry can contain as many
indicates the end of an entry.
Caution
All
attrtype
this information.
Any value enclosed within a " " and a " " is a variable and can be set whenever a new LDAP
entry is created. This rule does not apply, however, to
by the application used to edit the entry.

13.3. OpenLDAP Daemons and Utilities

The suite of OpenLDAP libraries and tools are found within the following packages:
— Contains the libraries necessary to run the OpenLDAP server and client applications.
• openldap
• openldap-clients
LDAP server.
• openldap-servers
LDAP server.
Chapter 13. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
/etc/openldap/schema/
attrvalue
attrvalue
attrvalue
attrtype :
and
attrvalue
— Contains command line tools for viewing and modifying directories on an
— Contains the servers and other utilities necessary to configure and run an
/etc/openldap/schema/
attrvalue
pairs must be defined in a corresponding schema file to use
id
directory. For more information
Directory.
pairs as needed. A blank line
. The is a number determined
id