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
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