Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 578

uid A unique number associated with each user on a Unix system.
URL Uniform Resource Locator. The addressing system used by the server and
the client to request documents. It is often called a location. The format of a URL is
. The port number is necessary only on
[protocol]://[machine:port]/[document]
selected servers, and it is often assigned by the server, freeing the user of having to
place it in the URL.
virtual list view index Otherwise known as a browsing index, speeds up the
display of entries in the Directory Server Console. Virtual list view indexes can
be created on any branchpoint in the directory tree to improve display
performance.
X.500 standard The set of ISO/ITU-T documents outlining the recommended
information model, object classes and attributes used by directory server
implementations.
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