Specifying Organizational Person Entries

Table A.3. LDIF Elements in Organizational Unit Entries

4.3. Specifying Organizational Person Entries

The majority of the entries in the directory represent organizational people. In LDIF, the definition of an organizational person is as follows:

dn: distinguished_name

objectClass: top

objectClass: person

objectClass: organizationalPerson

objectClass: inetOrgPerson

cn: common_name

sn: surname list_of_optional_attributes

The following is an example organizational person entry in LDIF format:

dn: uid=bjensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

objectclass: top

objectclass: person

objectclass: organizationalPerson

objectclass: inetOrgPerson

cn: Babs Jensen

sn: Jensen

givenname: Babs

uid: bjensen

ou: people

description: Fictional example person

telephonenumber: 555-5557

userpassword: {SSHA}dkfljlk34r2kljdsfk9

Table A.4, “LDIF Elements in Person Entries” defines each aspect of the LDIF person entry.

LDIF Element

Description

 

 

 

 

dn: distinguished_name

Required. Specifies the distinguished name

 

 

for the entry. For example, dn:

 

 

uid=bjensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

.

 

If there is a comma in the DN, the comma

 

 

must be escaped with a backslash (\).

 

 

 

 

objectClass: top

Required. Specifies the top object class.

 

 

 

 

objectClass: person

Specifies the person object class. This object

 

 

class specification should be included

 

 

because many LDAP clients require it during

 

 

search operations for a person or an

 

 

organizational person.

 

 

 

 

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