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Re: Groups Explanation

To: "John Humphrey" <txkjohn@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Groups Explanation
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 08:48:27 -0700
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <F70NPPzQT456UnHAaaz0000bdd3@hotmail.com>

At 07:34 AM 5/1/01, John Humphrey wrote:
>Could anyone in fifty words or less (actually take as many words as you need) explain the difference between a posixGroup, groupOfNames, and groupOfUniqueNames?

groupOfNames is a group of directory objects enumerated by
distinguished name.  See RFC 2256 (standard track) and X.501.

groupOfUniqueNames is a group of directory objects enumerated
by a unique (distinguished) name and optional identifier.  The
purpose of the identifier is to ensure unique objects can be
identified upon add,delete,rename of objects. That is, cn=foo
might be deleted (or moved) and a new cn=foo added.  However,
each would have a separate optional identifier to distinguish
which cn=foo one was actually referring to.  See RFC 2256
(standard track) and X.501.

posixGroup is for management of groups in POSIX environments.
See RFC 2307 (experimental).

Kurt

References:
- Groups Explanation
  - From: "John Humphrey" <txkjohn@hotmail.com>

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