Purpose
This page provides a definition of the Distinguished name.
Applicable in CAST Version
Release | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| 8.3.x |  |
| 8.2.x | |
| 8.1.x | |
| 8.0.x | |
Applicable RDBMS
RDBMS | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| Oracle Server | N/A |
| Microsoft SQL Server | N/A |
| CSS2 | N/A |
Details
The distinguished name is the concatenation of the names of the Entry with all the parent entries of the LDAP tree view:
Figure 1In the above example the user "UserWithGroup1" is part of "ou Users", the "ou Users" is part of "dc=example,dc=com", so the DN is the concatenation of "uid=UserWithGroup1" and "ou=users" and "dc=example,dc=com"
The DN of a group is as follows:
Figure 2
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