Overview Of The Basic Directory Tree - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Introduction to Directory Server

Overview of the Basic Directory Tree

The directory tree, also known as a directory information tree or DIT, mirrors the
tree model used by most file systems, with the tree's root, or first entry, appearing
at the top of the hierarchy. At installation, Directory Server creates a default
directory tree.
The default directory tree appears as follows:
The root of the tree is called the root suffix. For information about naming the root
suffix, refer to "Choosing a Suffix," on page 58.
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 Netscape 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.
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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 Netscape Directory Server
Installation Guide for more information about deciding upon the
location of your configuration directory.
information,
o=NetscapeRoot
o=NetscapeRoot