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| | | international standards, including Directory Access Protocol. The X.500 |
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| | | standards specify Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) protocols and |
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| | | data definitions for general-purpose directory services. The X.500 standards |
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| | | were design to meet the needs of systems built according to the X.400 |
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| | | were designed to meet the needs of systems built according to the X.400 |
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| | | standards, covering electronic mail services.</para> |
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| | | <para>Lightweight Directory Access Protocol has been around since the early |
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| | | to make binary attribute values, such as passwords, certificates, or photos, |
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| | | portable in text format.</para></footnote></para> |
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| | | <para>The entry also has a unique identifier, show at the top of the entry, |
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| | | <para>The entry also has a unique identifier, shown at the top of the entry, |
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| | | <literal>dn: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com</literal>. DN stands |
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| | | for distinguished name. No two entries in the directory have the same |
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| | | distinguished name.<footnote><para>Sometimes your distinguished names include |
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| | | </indexterm> |
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| | | <para>Delete. After binding, the client can request that the server |
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| | | delete one or more entries. To delete and entry with other entries |
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| | | underneath, first delete the children, then then parent.</para> |
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| | | underneath, first delete the children, then the parent.</para> |
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| | | </listitem> |
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| | | <indexterm> |
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