Distinguished Names

  • Built up by starting at the bottom, and connecting each level together with commas
  • Contain two parts
    • Left most part is called relative distinguished name
    • Remainder is base distinguished name
  • Eg: uid=bmarshal,ou=People,dc=pisoftware,dc=com
    • RDN is uid=bmarshal
    • Base DN is ou=People,dc=pisoftware,dc=com
  • In each base DN, each RDN is unique
    • This ensures no two entries have the same DN
Same RDN