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Administration
Customizing the OpenLDAP Schema
The schema that slapd uses may be extended to support additional syntaxes, matching rules, attribute types, and object classes. In the case of the
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LDAP DIT Design and LDIF File
LDAP Data Structure
An LDAP directory stores information in a tree structure known as the Directory Information Tree (DIT). The nodes in the tree are directory entries, and each entry contains information in attribute- value form. An example of the LDAP directory tree for the
DIT Creation
The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is used to represent LDAP entries in a simple text format (please refer to RFC 2849). The figure below illustrates an LDIF file that creates the DIT for the B051- 000 directory tree (shown in the figure, above).
The following figure illustrates an LDIF file that defines the OpenLDAP group for the
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