presence index | Allows searches for entries that contain a specific indexed attribute. |
protocol | A set of rules that describes how devices on a network exchange information. |
protocol data unit | See PDU. |
proxy | A special form of authentication where the user requesting access to the directory does not bind |
authentication | with its own DN but with a proxy DN. |
proxy DN | Used with proxied authorization. The proxy DN is the DN of an entry that has access permissions |
| to the target on which the |
PTA | Mechanism by which one Directory Server consults another to check bind credentials. Also |
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PTA directory | In |
server | through) bind requests it receives to the authenticating directory server. |
PTA LDAP URL | In |
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RAM | Random access memory. The physical |
| stored in RAM is lost when the computer is shut down. |
RDN | The name of the actual entry itself, before the entry's ancestors have been appended to the string |
| to form the full distinguished name. Also relative distinguished name. |
| A replica that refers all update operations to |
| of |
| A replica that contains a master copy of directory information and can be updated. A server |
| can hold any number of |
referential | Mechanism that ensures that relationships between related entries are maintained within the |
integrity | directory. |
referral | (1) When a server receives a search or update request from an LDAP client that it cannot process, |
| it usually sends back to the client a pointer to the LDAP sever that can process the request. |
| (2) In the context of replication, when a |
| it to the server that holds the corresponding |
| called a referral. |
relative | See RDN. |
distinguished |
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name |
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replica | A database that participates in replication. |
| Replication configuration where replica servers, either hub or consumer servers, pull directory |
replication | data from supplier servers. This method is available only for legacy replication. |
replication | Act of copying directory trees or subtrees from supplier servers to replica servers. |
replication | Set of configuration parameters that are stored on the supplier server and identify the databases |
agreement | to replicate, the replica servers to which the data is pushed, the times during which replication |
| can occur, the DN and credentials used by the supplier to bind to the consumer, and how the |
| connection is secured. |
RFC | Request for Comments. Procedures or standards documents submitted to the Internet |
| community. People can send comments on the technologies before they become accepted |
| standards. |
role | An entry grouping mechanism. Each role has members, which are the entries that possess the |
| role. |
| Attributes that appear on an entry because it possesses a particular role within an associated |
attributes | CoS template. |
root | The most privileged user available on Unix machines. The root user has complete access |
| privileges to all files on the machine. |
root suffix | The parent of one or more sub suffixes. A directory tree can contain more than one root suffix. |
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