Re: newbie slapd.conf question

[Peter Armstrong <armstrong@exoffice.com>]

dc stands for domain component.  So in the domain foo.com, foo and com are
domain components.

So you can represent foo.com as

dc=foo,dc=com

or

o=foo.com

Both of them accomplish the goal of getting a globally unique name for the
foo.com organization (if everyone plays nice and uses domain names).  Which
to choose?  I choose dc=foo,dc=com since it is advocated in an RFC (I forget
which), and if you can refer someone to an RFC you are usually safe :-)

cheers,
peter

marcr@crt.com wrote:

> When looking at slapd.conf there are two lines as follows:
>
>         suffix "dc=my-domain, dc=com"
>         # suffix "o=My Organization Name, c=US"
>
> What is the "dc="?  How do these two lines differ?  Is this documented
> anywhere (I couldn't find it on the man pages/faq/mailing list anywhere)?
> When I look at the U of M admin guide it doesn't show the dc syntax
> anywhere, just the o=?  I'm just trying to get a complete understanding of
> what is going on.
>
> thanks for the patience,
> Marc